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Gnomes became the Jews, and it was all too obvious if you know negative Jewish stereotypes in 1st and 2nd edition. Big noses? Check. Obsessed with gold and gems? Check. Intellectual with little physical power? Check. Could in many ways be described as rat-like? Check. Insisted on constantly...

Huh. My interpretation of the D&D setting is that Orcs are more closely related to Ogres than they are humans. Humans can breed with Orcs. Humans can breed with Ogres. But looking at Orcs and Ogres, they kind of seem to be the same basic genus-- just Ogres are the bigger, dumber species within...

I think the base concept of Gnome is fairly consistent. They are small, smart, studious and long-lived. And they live in damp, musky, mossy underground areas, often dimly lit and out of sight and mind of the bigger people who might seek to do them harm. And they probably keep lots of books and...

Three things that upset me 1) The monster manual makes hyenas much weaker than wolves when they are in fact much stronger. 2) The Beastmaster Ranger takes animal companion stats straight from the monster manual rather than generating stats and levels for it based on your level and uses them in...

I am surprised that it is the Gnome that is the OP has trouble with. To me, it seems like it is the Halfling that is lacking any identity. Sure, Gnomes have a somewhat confused identity split between being techies and hippies, but at least there is something to say about them. But Halflings...

Sure-- another one might be-- shouldn't the stat that adds its bonus to Perception (i.e. Wisdom) be the stat attribute that ranged attacks with bows and such be based on rather than the stat that dictates ones ability to Dodge attacks (i.e. Dexterity)?

I think it would be fine to fix the attribute overall. Frankly, I am not even sold on the value of the physical scores being exactly what they are given this edition's allowance for players to basically have their Dexterity do everything Strength would normally do plus more. I am not sure...

I don't think it is a good idea. What benefit could possibly come from "Well, let's roll die and determine the maximum possible potential this character could have even if you played it to level 20 and obtained the best magic items."? I mean-- either they are going to get really good values...

Did you make the art yourself? Because the artwork is incredibly, incredibly good. Almost too good for a project like this. Anyway, the idea is fine, but why didn't you write up a stat block for it? Or was the stat block there if only I pressed the correct button and I didn't see it?

I want to create a new way of handling races where I get rid of subraces. Instead a Dwarf is a Dwarf and an Elf is an Elf and they could have any mixture of the various combinations of skin/hair color or physical traits that one could imagine coming across. But I still want to offer some...

Here are the things you would have to fundamentally change about Elves in order to get them to work in any setting that would be considered "gritty". The moment you say "Well, by all means play Marisoo the Elven Ranger Princess who sneaks better than the thief and fights better than the...

Hmmm.. it looks like unless one is paying at least $3 a month to these boards, one can't even view things in the download section. But without viewing your PDF, just looking at the other comments, if your races primarily exist of random furry races with little more to them than the traits...

I probably shouldn't bother replying to this again, but... since it did come up to me as a notification, maybe I will take one more shot at this. If you want your world to be gritty and semi-realistic, you really should get id of the Elves all together. The very idea that there could be a race...

Why not just get rid of the subraces all together and let the player pick from literally any of the elf-like traits and elf-like proficiencies. Also, I don't know that the ability score should be able to be applied to any score. Maybe anything except Strength or Constitution? But-- with those...

From the OP, it looks like the main problem here is that all the focus is on things that are on the macro-scale. The problem is that things on the macro-scale tend to just plain never get used, especially if they are far too numerous. I cannot think of any reason one could ever legitimately...

Really? You want another book of races? After the big steaming dump that was Volo's Guide? The people writing the rules clearly don't have even the most remote grasp on what makes a race functional or balanced, resulting in massively overpowered ones and one's that are complete crap no matter...

The rapier remains on the table and unchanged... So really nothing else you are trying to fix here matters. There is no reason to ever use the other weapons so long as you can go God Mode by ignoring the Strength stat all together and pouring everything into Dexterity and being better at...

I have been thinking about for a while a solution to the idea that elves can live for hundreds, if not thousands of years and yet they do not seem to accrue any more skills or abilities or knowledge or wisdom than someone who doesn't live even 1/10th that length of time. Working with the fact...

Not only can that represent two nations of the same race, you can have both things happening among different sectors of the same nation! There is hardly a human culture that has ever existed in the world above a few thousand people where you didn't have some group of them that were highly...

Some of those might use a bit of creativity.... "Greater Mommy" (yes, mommy, not mummy) "Great Space Pat" "Giant Dwarf" "Dead Dragon" (not "undead dragon" not "death dragon" but "dead dragon") On the other hand-- a "Chromatic Wolf" or a "Cloud of Chaos" would be pretty awesome for a very trippy...