LordEntrails
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Does any of the 'classic;' races have a unifying theme?Gnomes have no unifying theme.
@Snarf Zagyg has already shown us that elves don't.
Humans... maybe their only theme is they are middle f the road, can do everything but are not otherwise special? i.e. they are the known baseline.
Dwarfs? Eh, some of them live underground and some don't. Mostly they are miners and 'salt of the earth' folk, but is that a unifying theme?
Halflings? Just half humans right? Its in there name.
A lot of the 'newer' ones that have not been envisioned a million different ways do.
Genesai are elementals, so yea, they do
Aarakocra are flyers, so yea, they do.
Shifters do, they are shifters.
What about firbogs? I don't think so, at least nothing that has made an impression on me.
Orcs used to. But of course we are no longer supposed to stereotype by race because of the real-world associations. So can we really have any unifying themes to a race anymore?