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Is this just an issue with people who grew up with the recent Lord of the Rings movies and just are incapable of getting their mind out of that? Like none of the people having an issue here have been around D&D for the last 25 years-- you just went from those Lord of the Rings movies and popped...

So your argument is basically this... "Why does the world have more than one kind of carnivora that are larger than mongooses and smaller than bears? All this nonsense about badgers, racoons, wolves, jaguars, cheetahs, hyenas, seals.... they are all very obviously just names for the same...

I suppose, but then that's just one more reason to move them ever further into the "just additional PC races" category. There are plenty of more monstrous things to be the proper monsters, some of which have already been moved into the "just another PC race" category like Draconians or Golems or...

Well, I suspect that in the future of the game, players are going to be spending at least as much time talking to them as fighting them. Which is probably why there has been an increasing amount of distinction between them starting even from 3rd edition. Sure-- if one goes back to 1st edition...

Well, there are Hobgoblin models from GW well before they were paired with the Chaos Dwarfs and the last couple things made for them were actually put into the mercenary faction Dogs of War. But-- really-- given that there are just so many flavors of elves and it seems that no designer in...

Actually, WarHammer has Hobgoblins too-- but they are barely ever mentioned or used. They attempted to utilize them in WarHammer Fantasy during the 1990s, but the market just couldn't support that many armies in the model game. But the Hobgoblins there are between the size of goblins and orcs...

I would prefer to see a new game world that starts small and centralized and slowly expands out rather than trying to reboot one that has decades of history and has more or less been "solved" by heroes of some old novel series. New start, new beginning, new opportunities. But-- I suppose there...

I would say that Hobgoblins are more Cardassians than Klingons. They have a super organized society. To be within the top caste of that society, you must exhibit particular behavioral traits. You are to be organized, collected and avoid showing weakness. You are to keep your word, do your duty...

I would assume that the variant human gets played so often that they came to think the variant human was the default human and the default human is the variant human.

I have it on good authority from Shaggy that you just need to confidently and boldly assert "It wasn't me."

Well, maybe that will make such light of just how badly the thing is design that people will finally listen to what I have been saying for years. The races should just be Dark Vision (or some extra bonus if they don't have it) Access to a basic martial weapon or armor if the class doesn't...

Rolling on a table for a random item defeats the narrative purpose of element just as much as them randomly swiping stuff from the other party members. Within the books, the idea would generally be that the Kender just happens to have picked up the correct item for the situation. It would make...

I would like to say that this makes the Hobgoblin race not as utter trash at being anything but spellcasters..... But... no... it does nothing to fix that the race is nothing but a bunch of useless armor/weapon proficiencies and a badly designed version of Bless/Bardic Inspiration that only...

What bugs me about this picture? At the time the pyramids were being built, they were covered with pure white marbel and capped with a golden capstone. And yet this picture shows the naked, bland limestone infrastructure of those pyramids as if that is all there ever was. Also-- at the time...

I think it is pretty obvious that Kender are a kind of very extreme Halfling. Similar to how the Tinker Gnomes are a very extreme Gnome. And then there are Gully Dwarfs.... Dragonlance went very cartoony with its races like that, everything having to be over-the-top to the point no one could...

I could definitely see them as some sort of nature-spirit based animism. The wind has a spirit, the trees have spirits, the mountain has a spirit-- basically everything has spirits-- the spirits have desires and desire certain things to be done. In return, a small handful of special orcs can...

Ruling out anything just means it is best for me to wait until community mods. The fact that Drow and Githyanki are options but any sort of Orc or Goblinoid is the kind of thing that I dislike. I totally get that there are a ton of elf fans out there, but one doesn't build fanbases for other...

I will try this game when there is a mod that allows one to play as a hobgoblin or orc (even half-orc). Since it is very obvious the actual studio won't release such options. Until then, as impressive as the videos I have watched look, I kind of feel excluded from enjoying this.

Hmm... Choose Constitution as the secondary attribute, choose Athletics and maybe Stealth as your skills-- almost makes for a better Hobgoblin than that wizard-focused interpretation in Volo's Guide. I think the idea here would be if you were in a campaign world where anyone can breed with...

Why no Hobgoblin on this list? Naturally I want a half-Hobgoblin, a Half-Fiend Hobgoblin, a half-Celestial Hobgoblin, a Hobgoblin/Elf crossbreed and a Hobgoblin/Orc crossbreed.