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Sorcerer class flat out gives examples of how people gain sorcery without it being form birth. Drink dragon blood, bathe in magic ponds, be hit by magic lightning, survive a slaad or illithid egg inside you.

Okay, I'm not going to touch the class identity war thing, but.... 👏SORCERER 👏IS👏 NOT👏 BLOODLINES👏!!!!!! Dragon sorcerer was bloodlines, but wild magic, storm sorcery, clockwork, aberrant mind, divine soul, moon magic, and shadow magic were NEVER bloodlines. Pathfinder was the one that went...

I'm going to be a troll and say.... :devilish:Psion, Warlord and Spellblade. :devilish: Jokes aside, each one on that list is an iconic fantasy archetype. The only question is wizard / sorcerer, which are two sides of the same concept, so you need at least one of them.

Oooh! Tough choice. I like both!

I mean, there's nothing wrong with using a spiritual successor in the place of an older name and mechanics. They're technically different, but they fill pretty much the same niche and are otherwise really close. It makes sense to me. Every new edition brings changes, and we all adapt. I...

We DO have the tabaxi, which I've seen tweaked into catgirls and catboys. Same with plasmoids and slime girls/boys. The closest we have to foxes are the arcanaloth, though....

I personally doubt we will see that ideal - it's what ardlings tried to do but didn't pass muster. People voted to have beastkin style and angel style celestials separate. Which is uderstandable if aasimar get wings, as most angels do but most guardinals don't. Furthermore.... eladrin, the CG...

For Goliath, yes. They appeal to some new fantasies that weren't always considered. Half orc were always just playable orcs, and orcs were always highly visible in modern fantasy. Not sure if it's going to change anything at all. Aasimar... not as much. Unless these are radically different...

No consideration for halfling or dwarf aasimar? Like... why would people do that? Go up to pour their hearts out to someone that looks human? Are we automatically assuming they're paladins or clerics with flashy signs?

Chaotic planes of limbo are just... elementals. Some slaad too, but mainly elementals. so genasi The modrun are pretty close to warforged that you could use the rule from one for the other

They're both Frankenstein! If the story is about family and abandonment... then the monster should have inherited the mad doctor Victor's last name.

They're not associated with the elemental planes; however, they fill the niche of an fire/necrotic/poison element blaster as an archetype. Someone with an innate affinity for fire magic (or dark magic, etc). Its like saying that red dragon sorcerers are fire elementalists, even if they're not...

In 1dnd, they've got fire, necrotic and poison (three most common damage types in the game after s/b/p), and an easy template to add other elements to. They also come with resistance to the appropriate element. And, in 2014 5e, their two racial feats were (gain more elemental resistances) and...

Of course the gnomes are. I'd rather see them replaced personally, but I know and I said that its not going to happen and I accept that.

So, matching pairs in the 1dnd phb: Humans (no match) Elf, Dwarf (the classics) Gnome, Halfling (smol) Goliath, Orc (swol) Tiefling, Dragonborn (elemental) Notice how the ones on the left are more magically themed than the ones on the right, who tend to be more physical oriented. Goliaths are...

@Kaiyanwang - okay, thank you for the answer.

I would imagine that tiefs and dragos go together as two sides of the elementalist archeetypee. One magey one physical.

@Kaiyanwang - Its been decades (2003 release date) since I touched Draconomicon. I couldn't tell you what's in it anymore. Been too long. But seriously. You said that you didn't feel that 5e had monster books on par with Draconomicon. What is it about 5e monster books do you feel is...

What flavor? I'm a big fan of neopolitan. Joking aside... I would sooner recomend pairing them with Araoskha and Kenku like options (or the birds from Humblewood), maybe a dash of harpy, focusing on making this into a flying based race than I would spend focusing on making them mini-paladins...

We have mana systems. Spell points for casters, stamina / supeiority dice /rage / Ki (or dp) on martials. Purely out of curisoity, why does Fizbin's Treasury of Dragons not fill that Draconomicon niche for you?