D&D General What Races/Species do you think are missing from Dungeons and Dragons?

[overgeeked]

For a game that's supposed to be about unfettered imagination, the ability to create your own is sorely lacking. Yes, it technically exists, but it's pretty bad. Playable versions of all the monsters is also missing. Though, if you had the former, you wouldn't need the latter.

 

[cbwjm]

For a game that's supposed to be about unfettered imagination, the ability to create your own is sorely lacking. Yes, it technically exists, but it's pretty bad. Playable versions of all the monsters is also missing. Though, if you had the former, you wouldn't need the latter.

3e did it quite well, though I think pathfinder did it better so that after a while, your race didn't have a level adjustment, but I did love 3e’s monster manual for including stats for many of the more humanoid races for to use as a PC.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Actually, I'd have liked to have seen a decent half-ogre race.

The closest you will likely get to that is the Hill Giant Goliaths.

 

[DEFCON 1]

Most of the species mentioned here thus far have been created multiple times over by all manner of players and 3PP. A quick google search of even 'Hengeyoukai 5E' will give you more than a half-dozen versions on the first page so you can find the version you think would work best for you. And the great thing about 5E species write-ups is that most of the mechanics are so inconsequential you can pretty much tell on sight when a write-up is overpowered and unbalanced.

If there's a Species in D&D you'd like to have as a player option... changes are pretty good someone out there has already designed it for you. You just have to find it and then hope your DM isn't going to be a schmuck and agrees to let you use it.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I miss the half-ogre but for storytelling they were too typecasted and stereotyped into brainless bag of muscles.

The wilden could be recycled as feys with option of plant-like traits, something about resting during the sunday and then they need less food.

Other point is Hasbro would rather to be "original" in the sense they wanted new PC species or creatures could be protected as "trademark".

 

[aco175]

I'm not even sure I want to bring in orcs as a player race in my game, the peasants would stone them. Although I have had a policy of allowing PHB races as given, I cannot see pistol carrying space hippo or an ooze wearing a helmet and somehow wielding a dagger.

 

[Scott Christian]

That's a big question. Missing species that haven't made it in yet:

• Stars, similar to will-o-wisps.
• Pulling in other races from different planets like Klingon, Vulcan, etc.
• Any food-based race, similar what one would see on a 2-year-old's television show; ie a talking potato, cucumber, etc.
• Insects. There are literally millions to choose from: worms, bees, wasps, butterflies, etc.
• Inanimate objects, think Beauty and the Beast with talking brooms and armoires.
• Ethereal or metaphysical ideas such as music notes, sunshine, etc.

 

[steeldragons]

A humanoid avian race.

NOT anthropomorphic birds with hands. Flash Gordon's Hawkmen. DC's Thanagarians. Angel from the X-men.

Humans (for all ostensive purposes) with raptoran/hawk/eagle wings.

There was the "winged ones" (the "Al-karak-elam"? Not sure I'm recalling that correctly) from forever ago. But they were never an "official" PC species (though I have used them in my homebrew setting more or less since I first saw them).

This is probably because of the problem -both in "theatre of the mind" and with minis- with handling flight/flying as movement in/around combat. And I get it. But at the same time....magic-users (or those with items to allow it) have been flying around battlefields since the game began.

But would still be nice, to me, to see.

 

[Corinnguard]

Pulling in other races from different planets like Klingon, Vulcan, etc.

We need a new thread for this idea.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I'd really Iike the rest of the Psion races from the 3.5e SRD updated as well, although I'd make Maenads a Nymph Lineage.