D&D 5E Halflings are the 7th most popular 5e race

[Hussar]

Plant race and construct race would seem to be decent options.

 

[Yaarel]

Plant race and construct race would seem to be decent options.

For Construct species, definitely Warforged emphasizing this is a species of "Wood Golem". Unlike typical Golems, the Warforged has an artificial soul that is comparable to a Humanoid soul.

For the Plant species, I want a tree. Maybe its individuals are highly diverse in appearance, ranging from what looks at first glance like a young tree, to what looks like a polished wooden statue of a human, and variegated forms in between. Some individuals appear monstrous. Each member of the species grows into ones own personally desired shape.

Also an Undead species, maybe ghost, maybe vampire, maybe zombie.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Now I want to play a dryad!

Hell yeah. It's absolutely wiiiiiild to me that 10 years into 5e we don't have dryads. Just...wild.

 

[Scribe]

Hell yeah. It's absolutely wiiiiiild to me that 10 years into 5e we don't have dryads. Just...wild.

PF2 has some cool options for plant people.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

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I think you gave me confused with someone else. I don’t think I’ve ever talked about half orcs in this context. Only thing I can recall is the changing of the racist language around orcs. But I can’t recall ever talking about half orcs.

Read it again, please. I'm replying to your post about how you supposedly focus on halflings because half-orcs are already on the way out. And I said, "you've been bringing them up a lot since before half-orcs were getting yeeted".

Unless I'm rather bad at writing, "them" can really only refer to halflings, in the sentence you quoted.

But I would certainly give votes to a plant people pc race.

OF course! Who wouldn't! It's seriously just mind blowing that we get 3 elves every time but not dryads.

I like Eladrin but like...guys...dryads are right there. There's already a pretty humanoid looking Fey species. They even have pointed ears in most dnd art.

 

[Hussar]

See we’re not actually all that far apart. If they are expanding the race choices, most of my concerns disappear. My issues are based on the idea that like virtually every single edition of DnD, we are going to get the same palette that was established in 1e.

If that’s not true then I couldn’t care less whether halflings are there or not.

It’s that in the past it was halflings and gnomes instead of any other options. It took 4e to finally make a tiny crack in the lineup.

Hopefully 5e widens the options.

 

[Mistwell]

Everyone pretty much agrees that if gnomes got the toss, it wouldn't be much of a loss.

My friend, this community went to WAR over WOTC making light fun of the Gnome for 4e in a cartoon. Gnomes have a seriously hardcore group of fans. Everyone definitely unquestionably does not "agree" that gnomes can go away. Blood would be spilled on these forums for years if they did.

 

[James Gasik]

Now I want to play a dryad!

We had Hamadryads in 4e.

 

[Lanefan]

OF course! Who wouldn't! It's seriously just mind blowing that we get 3 elves every time but not dryads.

If they're to be made playable (i.e. the least bit balanced) they'll end up as pretty much no more than another Elf sub-species anyway.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

If they're to be made playable (i.e. the least bit balanced) they'll end up as pretty much no more than another Elf sub-species anyway.

Absolute nonsense.

Look at the dryad stats in the 5e monster manual. That is completely viable as a playable race without any loss of distinctiveness or power. That's like a level 3 character or something. Like...What are you even talking about? No more unfit for playable race than any of the PHB races.

The only argument I can see is that the entire CR 1 statblock would be OP as a race writeup, but like...it's an intelligent creature that learns stuff, it wasn't born with all of that, any more than the elf statblocks in the MM are what an elf is born with.