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Maybe because there are other big giantish people that live in the high mountains? How many races can the high mountains support -- much less giant ones? Goliaths are totally superfluous and are trying to fill a niche that is already filled. There is nothing interesting about them...

Funny thing, I also have a hobgoblin-run empire. I am currently running a modified FR campaign where Calimshan was overrun after the spell plague by hobgoblins from the plane of fire who worship Kossuth. This has resulted in a refugee crisis that has overwhelmed Baldur's Gate and started to...

I like the idea of making half-races as variants on the base race.

Here I thought we were having a discussion instead of an argument. ;) I am not trying to "prove" my viewpoint to you so the strength of my "argument" is totally irrelevant. Arguing matters of taste is pointless. ---------- There are thousands of preservers, free slaves, and outlaws, etc. There...

It was present in every episode since she was introduced. Whether it was the "A" plot isn't relevant as it came up over and over again. Additionally, she was a character that mostly would blend into the environment as long as the party stayed away from the core worlds. A gnome is going to be...

Not necessarily true for most character story arcs. But the arc you have suggested will suck all of the oxygen out of the other character arcs if taken to its logical conclusion. The last surviving gnome? Yep, that is a going to be a big deal in a world like Dark Sun. As a player I would...

So now you have created a campaign where one player has the spotlight and all of the rest are the sidekicks. Because if you run this storyline about the last gnome it will become the dominant storyline. Also you have now created an incentive for intraparty conflict. It would sure be tempting...

IME most players fall in love with a particular concept but actually never roleplay that concept. I have been playing since AD&D first came out and it is unusual to see someone actually RP their character. This is one of the reasons I don't see the need for a bunch of races. Most people...

I actually don't like any cliches including the examples you have put forth. What I look at is how is the culture presented in that setting. So in the Forgotten Realms, Drow have a certain cultural tendency (at least in the North). I my own homebrew setting (which I haven't run in awhile), I...

So for anyone interested, I created a Song Path that uses the concept of an exploration of Deep Sashelas realm of Tir Faoi Thoinn. It looks at the ocean from three different vantage points - a cliff where the ocean crashes into an island, from deep under the water near Sashelas' home in the...

Except that you have just disrupted the narrative with the bag of holding gag. Or the gnome or whatever. You are now creating a snowflake exception that doesn't respect the themes and tone of the setting. Notice in the Skyrim story, Snow Elf still isn't a playable race. It is there to tell...

I really don't see how adding Wookies and Klingons to a Gothic horror game like Curse of Strahd works at all and still maintains the tone and themes of the setting. To me that is just as jarring as having machine guns in a D&D setting that is fantasy medieval/renaissance like Forgotten Realms...

Yes. A setting is a collection of ideas to provide a specific narrative feel and tone. Dark Sun feels very different from Forgotten Realms for exactly this reason. For the choice of races, magic, items, rarity of resources all set this tone. Dragging a race into such a setting "just...

Can't be any worse than Kenku as player characters -- a race whose only purpose is for players to annoy the DM. ;)

I think you are being a bit optimistic about a 'plotline'. The first level of the dungeon is full of that kind of nonsense. There are a couple of good ideas there, but this is just a gotcha for PCs that are not thinking this through.

It seems that the half-breeds as variants of base type is a really good way to handle this while still allowing players the racial connection they want. Speaking of Dark Sun, I thought the Mul was an interesting take on the half-breed option -- a sterile hybrid of a human and dwarf. It would...

This. A CRPG that allows for the community to create adventures off the game engine.

The WotC archive was a good history of the stones.

I stand corrected about the ready action. However, I still don't understand why you think this is a counterspell strategy. If you are in range of the enemy caster (60 feet) they can still counterspell you unless they have already used their reaction.

A readied action takes place on someone else's turn. But why bother trying to do it this way? Run into the room, misty step, and then cast the spell as your action.