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Love the Tiamat homage in the standard cover.

Elves have always had more sub races than other races, TSR had a thing for elves

Guard (Human, Waterdeep), Guard (Human Sembia), Guard (Human Cormyr), Gaurd (Human, Silverymoon)

Mainly because I had the FR Wiki Elf page open and was too lazy to look up other humanoids.

Given the popularity of the topic you would think there would be space for a "Complete Book of Humanoids" featuring a wide variety of stat blocks for each humanoid subrace. Guard (Drow), Guard (Elf, Avariel), Guard (Elf, Dark), Guard (Elf, Lythari), Guard (Elf, Moon), Guard (Elf, Sea), Guard...

if not Drow it would have been something else

Bring back hiding racial, class and monster abilities in the middle of paragraphs of text

page 56 of the DMG Creating a Creature

flavour comes from the setting not the stat block, one campaign might use orcs as savage raiders intent on killing everything, another might use them as nomadic herders fleeing something and attacking everything out of fear rather than anger. Both are grey skinned, tusked humanoids sweeping in...

Drow of 4th level or higher had levitate as a 1/day spell in Second Ed, nothing mentioned in the 3e MM

Difficult to answer here as I suspect most posters have decades of DMing experience, but I would suspect "mischievous fey race" is much more interesting to plot around then "savage humanoids who live in mines"

Page 57

As I said, if it fits your campaign better, change fey to humanoid. As suggested in page 56 of the DMG, under Creating a Creature, Minor Alterations.

Charm/Hold Person are situational spells at best and rely on the DM using humanoids against the party. If you feel that humanoid goblins make more sense in your campaign there is an option, you can just adapt the humanoid stat blocks by giving it disengage and darkvision, or even just change...

Need to see the books to see how well it is implemented, but having a bunch of generic humanoid statblocks you can adjust for species adds a nice level of customization for DMs to play with. The goblins who moved into the old mine and are terrorizing merchants on the nearby road - humanoids...