D&D 5E What are your (up to 3) favorite character races? - Wizards Survey Duplication

[Aldarc]

31 playable creature types is IMO about 25 too many. Most of those 25 were once seen as monsters, and worked better that way.

 

[Bolares]

If I was doing a homebrew setting for my game, I'd let the players make their characters first, and then decide what cultures and races I'd put in my world.

 

[Minigiant]

Goliath
Half Elf.
Hobgoblin

I like races with unique connections to the world

 

[bedir than]

Tallefellow, Hairfeet, Kender

 

[Stormonu]

Dwarf, Dragonborn and Half-orc for me.

Kill the humans, they aren’t fantasy enough for me.

 

[Crimson Longinus]

I voted here the same than in the survey. First two were easy. Humans and halflings. With the third I could have gone many ways, but I voted orcs. I think they need to be in the next PHB as a core race.

 

[Yaarel]

I wouldnt mind if 50e deletes half-elf and half-orc, adds orc, and has a mixed-ancestry mechanic, analogous to multiclass.

Since Tashas can build an elf with +2 Cha score and any proficiency, the half-elf mechanics seems redundant.

 

[Scribe]

I voted here the same than in the survey. First two were easy. Humans and halflings. With the third I could have gone many ways, but I voted orcs. I think they need to be in the next PHB as a core race.

I think its quite possible.

My own setting downplayed (Half-Elf) or removed (Half-Orc) these options. I'm curious why Half-Elf is so popular here, because yeah I would not be sad if they dropped them in the next PHB (I know they wont, backward compatible, yadda yadda).

Adding Orcs, and then having Elf, Half Elf, Human, Half Orc, Orc...sure.

 

[Undrave]

Originally went Human, Halfling and Dwarf, but then I realized I played two Gnomes in 5e and not a single Halfling so I switched them around

 

[Charlaquin]

I love kenku as NPCs. But as PCs, in my experience, their signature trait is often ignored.

To be fair, truly playing into the mimicry as a PC would likely get old fast. I very much stand behind the advice in the book: just say “my character makes the sound of X to communicate Y,” and assume it’s clear enough for the other PCs to understand. Otherwise the game gets bogged down in annoying impressions and trying to guess what the heck that screeching noise was supposed to mean.