D&D 5E Why Dont The Creators Add Snow Elves In D&D?

[Northern Fighter]

In most of the d&d games i've played, there was a cool new race or sub-race but this one, D&D fifth Edition, there wasnt any new things that i saw... sooo in the next one, they should add Snow elves as a new race and some more shtuff to it Agreed?

 

[Hussar]

I would say that this sort of thing fits much better in a setting book than the core.

 

[pukunui]

I'd rather they introduced a race that is actually new, as opposed to one that is yet another elf subrace.

 

[The Crimson Binome]

In most of the d&d games i've played, there was a cool new race or sub-race but this one, D&D fifth Edition, there wasnt any new things that i saw... sooo in the next one, they should add Snow elves as a new race and some more shtuff to it Agreed?

By the end of Second Edition, the game had earned a substantial reputation for the sheer number of elf sub-races it had introduced. In reaction to that, there has been a deliberate attempt in more recent editions to reduce the number of elf sub-races down to something manageable.

They did the same thing with deities.

 

[Wik]

Hm. So, we have original D&D. Then we get the BECMI game, which adds... um, nothing new.

Then we get 1e, which adds, in terms of new races.... half elves, half-orcs, and gnomes.

Then we get 2e, which adds... nothing. In fact, say goodbye to half-orcs.

Then we get 3e, which adds.... hey! The half-orc is back!

Then we get 4e, which adds... eladrin, tieflings, and dragonborn. The fans go rabid with joy, and 4e becomes the most universally-loved version of D&D out there, never to be repla.... what? It didn't last long?

Then we get 5e, which adds... subraces to every new race in the core book. Every race that's appeared in every core PHB dating back to the beginning (except the eladrin, which are in the DMG).

I don't think "new races" should be part of a core book. You want snow elves? Write one up! There are rules in the DMG for it. I don't really know what a "snow elf" is, outside of Skyrim, which isn't WotC property (and is pretty obscure, even in Skyrim!) New and exciting races that vary from the "norm" should be in setting books or expansions.

In 5e, so far, we've got Aarakocra, Genasi, Deep Gnomes, Goliaths, Minotaurs, and I'm sure a couple more that I can't remember.

 

[jrowland]

I don't really know what a "snow elf" is, outside of Skyrim, which isn't WotC property (and is pretty obscure, even in Skyrim!)

It's the OPs special snowflake (see what I did?)

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Snow elves will be fine along side sun elves, wind elves, rain elves, sleet elves, cloud elves, partly cloudy elves ...

 

[Hussar]

Then we get 5e, which adds... subraces to every new race in the core book. Every race that's appeared in every core PHB dating back to the beginning (except the eladrin, which are in the DMG).

Read more: http://www.enworld.org/forum/showth...ators-Add-Snow-Elves-In-D-amp-D#ixzz3jgyW5inW

Well, they did exclude dragonborn as well. Kinda sad really, I liked Dragonborn. I thought they were cool. We need a scaley race.

 

[pukunui]

Well, they did exclude dragonborn as well. Kinda sad really, I liked Dragonborn. I thought they were cool. We need a scaley race.

Huh? Dragonborn are in the 5e PHB.

 

[gyor]

Er, Dragonborn are in the 5e PHB! page 32.