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The only thing moved around right now is ASIs and alignment. I looked at a lot of the races, and to me, 90% of their identity is other things. The origins and engrained features (flight, powerful build, innate spell casting, teifling heritage, Simic Hybrid anatomy) are still the same. To me...

The book also says it is a set "guidelines" meant to be tweaked for whoever, however. The group will work however it works. If you had certain expectations of things being by the book, I recommend asking the DM how the campaign will be in order to form reasonable expectations. I'm being...

The Minotaur was a one off hybrid between a woman and a magic bull in mythos. People can be polymorphed and cursed, or blessed, by many things. Naturally, "Far Traveller" background. A lot of monstrosities are just Wizards screwing around, looking to Mimics. Harry Potter had potions that changed...

Well, it's more "one person's opinion on designing" versus "four to five people's opinion's on playing." I don't think that metaphor works here, or supports the statement following.

I saw the title of this thread, and I knew exactly what was coming, as much of this seems to be your perception of the Fantasy Races thread. In this EXACT PRECISE scenario, the GM is ""right.""

I agree. I think about Sorcerer a lot, but I feel like a lot of my "themes" struggle to develop in practice. Learning one spell per level is difficult to work with, especially when picking the essentials like Shield or other protective things. Aberrant Mind/Clockwork Soul and Fey Touched/Shadow...

Which is accepted, never contested. Separately: I think accessibility and balance are more concrete, measurable, direct and controllable than something flexible, subjective and interpretive like tone and imagery. The Hulk's power is much more logistically and narratively problematic than the...

In all honesty, the only thing that seems overblown is the ""pro DM"" side's responses. I believe everyone's misspoken, but I don't recall @Chaosmancer or @EzekielRaiden (and company) being remotely that aggressive. I know it's supposed to be hyperbolic, but hyperbole implies that there's...

Uh, yeah? If I'm going to impact other people's experiences, I'd like to hear what they think about it. How do you approach DnD? Do you have people you want to play with and have a shared experience, or are you dead set on one exact idea and it's walk-or-not? I wouldn't offer only one game to my...

On top of your examples... Beauty and the Beast. (fey interference, much?) From greek mythology comes the Minotaur, a hybrid, amongst other mythological things. Lycanthropy and shape morphing is extremely common, from classic Vampires to werewolves. John Adams wanted to trade with...

I'm interested, but what will I do with my D20's!?

Also, in Xanathar's Tiefling origin table, a Tiefling can come from two human parents due to dormant genes, which could easily switch to a curse or freak incident. In a world with magic and whatnot, having variations is almost to be expected, especially if it's ancient.

You got booted for the most egregious part of that comment, and others here did a good job of responding, so I don't have to address that part of the mess. Focusing on the DnD aspect. You're wrong still. You already have what you want, and so do I, so why should the game change to become more...

Don't you know? It's MY setting and I have all of the POWER IN THE MATERIAL REALM! Just kidding. I think your whole comment is pretty spot on, in regards to respecting restrictions and visions, but also the ease and potential of bending them. I think a campaign of people who are flexible but...

Hoo wee Because it's easier to keep things as they are, rather than do that and force the rest of the community to home-brew things apart again for elements of the game they already enjoy. Okay. Specific, but okay. There's ways to do that without completely cutting the race. RP is literally...

I wish I could tackle this is a more efficient way... The fluff is important to those who are interested in it, and it can be changed to have a different meaning. Also, nothing inherently leads to "appearance discrimination there." You also discounted the idea of just changing the culture, and...

...That's a pretty strong reaction. I sure know every time I look at a Dragonborn, it's like being hit with Mind Sliver and Vicious Mockery. At this rate I'm scared to pick up the PHB. For real though, this is just another quote showing something wrong with how you're viewing the situation...

Oofta, I think you'd find that everyone's position boils down to that first paragraph. The rest is... bleh. Either already addressed, or somewhat-to-heavily misleading. Someone else can take this up.

Something something, not a valid point, something something, the community is bigger than forums, and those problems would easily manifest with replacement human cultures. Just because the races can be written badly doesn't mean the idea itself is at fault, it's just being poorly used. Orcs are...

Why is it a good thing? The only thing you'd gain is actively taking away other people's fun to no gain of your own, which runs very contrary to "you have your fun". I shall repeat, the fluff is only meaningless if you don't engage with it. If you take the other races seriously, the value...