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

[AnotherGuy]

Wights

 

[Mind of tempest]

Genasi are the only popular species missing from the 2024 Players Handbook.

I am still waiting to see a truly Large player species.

genasi still needs to be made to look cooler as they lack something iconic to sell people on them.

Yep. Ogres work.

ogres kind of suck in dnd we would need something less dumb and ugly.

I agree about dog-people. Heck, they're one of the oldest fantasy races - the ancient Romans talked about them! You could throw in wolf-people and jackal- and coyote-people as variants/subraces/refluffs.

I'm also surprised that I haven't seen a UA for kemonomimi (lit. "animal ears") aka anime furries. Especially kitsune*, who have a lot of interesting lore, but it would be really easy to extend to all sorts of other types like cats, dogs, tanuki, bears, etc. (I can imagine them struggling to get something past 70% approval, but the lack of trying seems odd to me.)

* or better yet gumiho, although if you have both that's even more interesting lore

Also plant people seems like a major fantasy trope that they haven't addressed in a while (they had them in 4e).

I thought gumiho were the ones just after your liver?

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

Re; size

I have "tiny" and "large" kins in my game. I use a medium and a small kin and bolt on them some already existing features from the game!

Giant-kin;
Medium, speed 35
- Giant Build: Adv. on STR saves and you are considered as a Large creature for the purpose of grappling, and carrying capacity. You can also enter the space of a creature at least one size smaller than you.

- Mighty reach: +5 ft range for melee attacks, + 30 ft for ranged attacks on your turn.

- Giant vitality: when you would roll a die to recover hit points, you can reroll a number of them equal to your CON modifier (min. 1) and use the best result.

Gnome;

-Nature Speak: You can communicate with beasts, plants and elementals in limited manner. They can understand the intent of your words but you have no special ability to understand their answer. You also have advantage on Charisma checks to influence the.

- Tiny dweller: you can enter the space of a creature at least one size greater than yours and you can move without squeezing in a space large enough for a Tiny creature.

- Hidden step: You can turn Invisible until the end of your next turn or until you make an attack or cause a creature to make a saving throw. PB/long rest.

 

[Lord Shark]

I don't know if they've ever been in an official book as a player option, but I think pixies and sprites are missing from the editions with which I'm familiar.

Pixies were an official player option in 4E, although they came along pretty late, in the Heroes of the Feywild book.

 

[Mind of tempest]

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.

most seemed to lack a cool look or be another type of mutant human which just does not sell people on things and would badly need to be a core option in a setting to really sell.

 

[jmartkdr2]

genasi still needs to be made to look cooler as they lack something iconic to sell people on them.

ogres kind of suck in dnd we would need something less dumb and ugly.

I thought gumiho were the ones just after your liver?

Yup. Korean foxes want to eat your liver.

 

[Mind of tempest]

Yup. Korean foxes want to eat your liver.

what is the formal name category that the several nations of magic shapeshifting animals from East Asia come under there has to be a common name?

I want a psionic race but none of the present options work as they suck to integrate into a setting

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

A lot of PC races from 2nd Ed were published in Dragon Magazine.

Races From Dragon Magazine

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Races

Player's Handbook Races Half-Vistani (Place holder) Human - Vikings Campaign Sourcebook Trollborn - Vikings Campaign Sourcebook See also Player Character Races PHB and Races From Dragon Magazine.

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Dragon #244

Fainil are drows with bat-like traits, Telvars are like the raptorans from Races of the Wild. Ashiera are winged fishfolk. And masgai are winged antropomorphic insects.

Shesheyan appeared in #251, Fraal in #253, Tsa in #257

In #266 there were several avian shapesifters.

Diposid from #267 are underground antropomorphic beetles

Sapromneme are reanimated corpses thanks special fungus.

Zygodacts possibly take the cake as the most bizarre PC specie from all editions.

Nathri from Planescape are the great forgotten. Too typecasted for the current standards.

From Spelljammer. Dracons are like centaur-like dragonborns. Gromman are gorilla-folk, Rastipede and Xixchil are no-evil centaur-like vernims.

Neantherdals from "Frostburn" could work as half-ogres or dumber cousin of goliaths.

 

[UngeheuerLich]

Pixies were an official player option in 4E, although they came along pretty late, in the Heroes of the Feywild book.

And they were hated on back then because their flight was limited to 10 ft height or so.

 

[jmartkdr2]

what is the formal name category that the several nations of magic shapeshifting animals from East Asia come under there has to be a common name?

If you want a word from real-life lore, it's probably however a Mandarin Chinese speaker would pronounce the kanji for kemonomimi. Shapechanging animals have a long history* in East Asian mythology.** If you're want to pull form DnD lore that's hengenyokai, which is also Japanese. But DnD has had a problem of thinking "Japan" when they're trying to think "Asia."

The main problem with using gumiho as evil kitsune is I wouldn't want to only reference to Korean mythology to be 'like Japan but evil.' So one would want to do a lot more research there.

* often as "good wife material", for some reason

** and everywhere else

I want a psionic race but none of the present options work as they suck to integrate into a setting

Well it is psionics.