D&D (2024) Which races would YOU put into the 50th anniversary Players Handbook?

[Yaarel]

Which races would YOU put into the 50th anniversary Players Handbook?

Here is the format:

• The first entry must be human. (Because human, the measure by which all other races are measured.)

• List your races as human plus groups of three, from your most necessary to the less necessary. The total number can be as few as 1, and as many as 22.

• LIST EACH SUBRACE AS A SEPARATE RACE! All subraces are now separate races. So, think carefully about which subrace you care about.

 

[el-remmen]

Human
Dwarf
Elf
Gnome
Halfling
Orc

 

[payn]

Whatever Alf is.

 

[Yaarel]

Human
Dwarf
Elf
Gnome
Halfling
Orc

Which dwarf? Mountain dwarf?
Which elf? Wood elf?
Which gnome? Which halfling?

Yeah, on orc.

 

[Vaalingrade]

I have no idea how the second restriction works, but let's go.

Human, Sorcerous
Human, Mutant
Human, Augmented

Halfling
Dwarf
Half Dragon (various colors)

Teifling
Aasimar
Gensai (four elements)

Elf (Absolutely NO subraces)
Half Elf
Tabaxi

Tortle
Minotaur
Goblin

Dryad
Animal, Awakened
Revenant

 

[el-remmen]

Which dwarf? Mountain dwarf?

Just Dwarf. Wanna be a dwarf from the mountains, just put it in your backstory or make that background. From the hills, same schniz.

Which elf? Wood elf?

Just elf. See above.

Which gnome? Which halfling?

I think you understand by now.

Yeah, on orc.

Orc, orc, baby!

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

1. Human.
2. See (1).

 

[billd91]

Just halflings and gnomes. And all art depicting them will show them flipping the bird at all of their haterz.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Orc, orc, baby!

Yo el-remmen, let's kick it
Orc, orc baby
Orc, orc baby

Alright stop, collaborate and listen
Orcs are back in the brand new edition
Grognards make all those posts impolitely
Ranting 'bout half-orcs daily and nightly
Will they ever stop? Yo, I don't know
All they can see is the status quo

Orc, orc baby
Not a half orc, orc baby
Not a half orc, orc baby
Not a half orc, orc baby

 

[GreyLord]

Well, two sets...basic for online downloads and the PHB.

In Basic

Human
Elf
Dwarf
Halfling

For PHB you add

Half Elf
Half Orc
Gnome

I'd put other races in the DMG or a supplement...in the supplement you would have

6 different types of Dragonborn (at least)
Tiefling
Genasi
Goliath
Aarakocra
Aasimar (it always burns me when they have Tieflings but don't have their opposing side)
Centaur
Changeling
4 different types of Genasi
Gith
Kalashtar
Kenku
Leonin
Minotaur
Orc
Satyr
Tabaxi
Tortle
and Triton as core (so probably in the DMG as optional core).

I'd leave the rest/others for a supplement that includes even more races (so that's where Goblin, Kobold, Owlin etc would go along with Modron, Ogre, Yuan-Ti, etc woudl go).