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

[CreamCloud0]

Outside of that, where's the beetlefolk? You make one as a stag beetle type, one as a rhino beetle type, both have a bonus to throwing each other around, you're gold. But the closest D&D's ever had was those weird 'Yeah they just have stalk-eyed fly type eyes' underdark beetles or those weevilfolk from 1E

I'm just imagining them as a society of heracross from pokemon.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Here your heracross PCs, from years ago, even before Pokemon.

The diopsid appeared in Dragon Magazine #267 and later to 3rd Ed in Dragon Compedium.

 

[Mind of tempest]

Is being really salable a high priority in this discussion?

you do not sell your players on a game you would like to try? It has the same logic you have to make something that convinces people to play it.

 

[Micah Sweet]

you do not sell your players on a game you would like to try? It has the same logic you have to make something that convinces people to play it.

I thought you were talking about financially salable. Selling your players on something is up to you, your Charisma score, and your skill proficiencies.

 

[Mind of tempest]

I thought you were talking about financially salable. Selling your players on something is up to you, your Charisma score, and your skill proficiencies.

it is a bit of both, it is selling people on the idea of playing this option from having it at the table to it being part of a supplement for sale it is a factor, and thus making something desirable is kind of core to all sides of the hobby.

 

[Micah Sweet]

it is a bit of both, it is selling people on the idea of playing this option from having it at the table to it being part of a supplement for sale it is a factor, and thus making something desirable is kind of core to all sides of the hobby.

Ok. For my part, since I can and do make my own stuff to supplement, whether or not other people would literally buy it is not my concern.

 

[jmartkdr2]

Ah. I see zero need to limit this to WotC. At that point it's just complaining that the corp hasn't officially released something that is at best years off. Better to take control.

My dm doesn’t run Level Up and I don’t want to go througn the effort of learning a whole new game just to try to convince someone who hasn’t shown interest in switching games to 1) switch games, 2) switch style to match the new game, 3) switch to Level Up and 4) not switch to some other game I already know and like that won’t be as much of a change in style (13th Age)

 

[Micah Sweet]

My dm doesn’t run Level Up and I don’t want to go througn the effort of learning a whole new game just to try to convince someone who hasn’t shown interest in switching games to 1) switch games, 2) switch style to match the new game, 3) switch to Level Up and 4) not switch to some other game I already know and like that won’t be as much of a change in style (13th Age)

It's not a new game. The majority is the same as 5e, and the stuff that isn't is IMO well worth learning, particularly as the alternative for you is apparently to wait for probably years for WotC to make something you could get right now.

 

[jmartkdr2]

It's not a new game. The majority is the same as 5e, and the stuff that isn't is IMO well worth learning, particularly as the alternative for you is apparently to wait for probably years for WotC to make something you could get right now.

Or I could just homebrew the race I want, or find the homebrew online.

But if the standard for “missing from DnD” is “can’t be homebrewed” then you’re just rejecting the premise of the thread.

 

[Mecheon]

I'm just imagining them as a society of heracross from pokemon.

Heracross and Pinsir! Plus weird Proto-Heracross who was a Pinsir evolution if you know your beta pokemon

The diopsid appeared in Dragon Magazine #267 and later to 3rd Ed in Dragon Compedium.

See, these were the exact ones I was criticising. Why they got the stalk-eyed fly thing? Where's the giant oversized mandibles or horns for Advantage to all grapple checks?

I like weird beetle people but the Dropsid go too weird and not enough beetle people