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Very carefully! Seriously though, has never been a rule about it being more tricky for them in any of their stat blocks

Centaur have been playable since Basic, they pre-date Complete Book of Humanoids. They weren't even the craziest thing in that book, Tall Tales of the Wee Folk had Pooka who had selective invisibility If something has been playable for 35 years and, outside of D&D, is known in the fantasy...

Not about being human-ish, its about if you're likely to encounter one in game. Gith are, for all intents and purposes, basically a Star Trek alien. We've had the "oh someone comes and wants to play a vulcan what do?" thread dozens of times here but Gith absolutely lean into that hard. I...

I think its an odd position and worth digging at. If something's appearing in like, Fantasia and Narnia, to say nothing of other well known works, there's a point where we can say its a part of the general fantasy zeitgeist and could reasonably be encountered in any sort of generic fantasy...

I hate to drag stuff up from a while ago, but... In what world are centaur and bird people 'wacko' species? They're stock fantasy and absolutely generic enough that you'll see games changing them up to give their own spin on both, same they do with elves and dwarves. D&D has weirdo races like...

Its embedded enough in pop culture its more recognisable as the Egyptian one. A simple google of it gets you the Egyptian one well before any D&D sources. If D&D wants things to be recognisably D&D, then they gotta be recognisably D&D. Because your average person isn't going to think "D&D snake...

No? Set's the Egyptian one's name as well, both Set and Seth are acceptable interpretations of his heiroglyph, along with Sutekh Using something else for the snake god is probably a good idea. D&D's got Zehir and tried to push that for a while, just use that as the new name

Not even the Tabaxi, all the Mystara races got playable stats going that far back

Because they're not gods, they're titans. Same reason various nymphs and the like are children of gods but not necessarily gods

D&D decided to bootstrap every single deity it could find into a single setting back in Deities and Demigods, let's not pretend that didn't happen. You can even go and visit them in Planescape and people specifically complained about the half-assed zero effort "Eh let's plonk actual Egyptian...

They don't conflict at all? Like, he's just athletic Thor Regardless though, if you think that's a conflict in portfolios, you'd hate actual IRL goddess Inanna/Ishtar, yeah, That Ishtar, goddess of love, fertility, civilisation and most importantly war. Very much not anything to do with...

Bane has the best/dumbest name thoough, which is just making him. Bane. From Batman. Poseidon (Y'know, that Poseidon) was worshipped as a god of earthquakes, the ocean, and horses. That's before we even get to the Mycean approach which, we know little of due to Linear B being Linear B, but he...

LotR knock off isn't the only thing. They'd probably also go "This is just a worse Warcraft" after a point as well The time for a Dragonlance live action was decades ago. It doesn't have the impact now it did then and would probably sink as much as Disney's attempt at John Carter.

Knight implies heavy armor, horse-back, all that type of thign which doesn't necessarily match with how folks play fighters. I'd argue it should be Warrior though, and that Warrior implies far stronger than a simple fighter They're completely different? Monks ki points are supernatural stuff...

Hasbro and Lego are rivals in the toy company business. They are not interested in Spelljammer and especially not interested in dead Dungeons and Dragons settings from the 90s. I'm pretty sure that one year of Ninjago they did sky pirates in outsold every Spelljammer product ever made, and even...

I mean, I'm not sure I'd call those essential parts of Mystara. Immortal play was late game optional stuff, Diaboli are an obscure race and, if looking at obscures, there's dozens in FR alone. I'd say the lack of Lupin is more relevant than Diaboli Not everything is there, sure, but these are...

I mean, Greyhawk has a Dragon Empire that's never been explored, only ever mentioned in like, one thing as "A dude went there and learnt to ride dragons" "Dragonborn live in the Dragon Empire" seems like a small leap

The weird dragon rebirth (and stuff goes horrible if you do evil acts IIRC?) thing isn't necessarily what folks are wanting, though There was a reason that was dropped pretty quickly for "Yeah you're just a dragon guy"

I mean, you don't even need to go that far. There's some sort of Dragon Empire that exists in Greyhawk that's never been explored. Just, have Dragonborn live there

I mean, just the same, an adventure and adventuring are two different things :p Regardless, this is why I reckon D&D's been bad in the past making warrior seem the down-scale of fighter when, frankly, in most other things its the opposite