D&D 5E why has none of the wisdom races caught on?

[Yaarel]

Maybe a "living spell" like Ensnare or Wall of Thorns, statting as a race?

 

[Mind of tempest]

I’d been typing up my post for a while and looking up images so no I hadn’t seen Vale’s post when I posted that

I dunno ‘humanoid plant’ is quite iconic IMO, I’d be leaning more to the deku side of things than the Pokemon side of things, the images you posted are a little too monstrous and overdesigned for my tastes personally

They don’t have to be a monoculture i was just suggesting potential ideas that weren’t just ‘tree people’ though i agree about the ranger-druid-cleric general class focus though barbarian wouldn’t go awry with the last ‘survival of the fittest’ concept for them.

I see that we have four primary classes for a wisdom based race to work with we could have half of it done so on to monk and cleric?
I say we lean into the sensory suggestion for several pages back to make them iconic amongst the plant folk ideas?

Maybe a "living spell" like Ensnare or Wall of Thorns, statting as a race?

that only really works as a one-off unless you have an idea I do not?

 

[CreamCloud0]

I see that we have four primary classes for a wisdom based race to work with we could have half of it done so on to monk and cleric?
I say we lean into the sensory suggestion for several pages back to make them iconic amongst the plant folk ideas?

Go onto what about monk and cleric?
Sensory suggestion? Sorry I don’t know which post/idea you’re referring to or what you mean by ‘make them iconic amongst the plant folk’

 

[Mind of tempest]

Go onto what about monk and cleric?
Sensory suggestion? Sorry I don’t know which post/idea you’re referring to or what you mean by ‘make them iconic amongst the plant folk’

Deku have already been done so got to add in something else to the pot to make them more iconic.

one poster mentioned using senses as part of a theme for a wisdom race as wisdom has to do with the perception skill.

 

[FrozenNorth]

For me, "Wisdom" is a hodgepodge of unrelated concepts:

Willpower saving throw
Perception (be its own ability score)
"intuitive" Investigation skill check
"social skills" Insight skill check

Plus attunement to divine magic
and attunement to primal magic
and attunement to ki

 

[FrozenNorth]

ent runs into the large race problem and shambling mound are mindless abominations.

You could recontexualize warforged and play up their golem-like aspects.

You would have to re-do their lore however.

 

[CreamCloud0]

Deku have already been done so got to add in something else to the pot to make them more iconic.

one poster mentioned using senses as part of a theme for a wisdom race as wisdom has to do with the perception skill.

Do you mean they’ve already been done in DnD already of just tgat they’re already an existing conceptual idea? Assorted elves, dragon people and part-demon/fiend aren’t exactly original ideas and they’re still popular, plant people don’t need a whole bunch of super special gimmicks in order to be iconic, I made suggestions of what they could have earlier (though admittedly yes i can see how inherent goodberry for a race would get abused to no end)

 

[Tonguez]

What other iconic D&D Plant can you think of?

Myconoids
Twigblights
Vineblights
Cactaurs
Pumpkin

 

[Mind of tempest]

Do you mean they’ve already been done in DnD already of just tgat they’re already an existing conceptual idea? Assorted elves, dragon people and part-demon/fiend aren’t exactly original ideas and they’re still popular, plant people don’t need a whole bunch of super special gimmicks in order to be iconic, I made suggestions of what they could have earlier (though admittedly yes i can see how inherent goodberry for a race would get abused to no end)

deku are a concept that exists so making things just like it is a copyright nightmare.

personally, I would suggest three eyes and four arms but I tried that and got no takers.
more art I can find.

 

[Mind of tempest]

Myconoids
Twigblights
Vineblights
Cactaurs
Pumpkin

myconids would lose their thing if you made them a player race.
blights are evil monsters.

what is a cactaur or pumpkin in this case?