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A Draconal in 1st edition Pathfinder resembled a cross between a humanoid, a serpent and a dragon. Its' second edition version kind of resembles an anthromorphic dragon. They went from looking like this: to looking like a winged Dragonborn. If you were looking at this pic for the very...

True, back in PF1, they were sometimes mistaken for Chromatic Half-Dragons. Each color of Draconal in PF1 actually represented something. From d20PFSRD: Black: Black is a balance between male and female energy, and represents the sky, stars, immortality, and leadership. Black draconals are...

D&D has five official Gem Dragons in 5e- Amethyst, Crystal, Topaz, Sapphire and Emerald. With regards to their breath weapons, the Amethyst had Force, the Topaz had Necrotic, Crystal had Radiant, Emerald had Psychic and Sapphire had Thunder. They were called Imperial Dragons in PF1 and in that...

I am not so sure about some people getting thrown off by the gem dragons since they too are color-coded. The linnorms otoh aren't color-coded, at least the ones in PF1's many bestiaries aren't color-coded. I haven't seen the ones in D&D yet.

The Mind Goblins, aka the Blue, are a psionic variant of Goblin. https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Blue_(goblinoid)

For anyone who ever wanted to play a Blue Goblin in 5e:

It says so right here in their contract with WoTC. "We, the Kobolds, of the Kobold Liberation Front declare that we're dragons."

I just find it a bit odd that the Dragonborn species weren't given any legacies like the Elves and Tieflings in order to really distinguish them from each other. While their breath weapons and resistance sort of do that, you don't see any signature traits that could distinguish, say, a Gold, a...

Like signature traits for each kind of Dragonborn in order to make them into actual subspecies?

Or you had Two-Weapon Fighting as your Fighting Style.

True. I think the only class that didn't have this problem for Dragonborn characters was the Fighter class because they could use Action Surge for their breath weapon.

They were a bit underwhelming back then. Fixed ASIs, a breath weapon and a resistance associated with the damage type of your breath weapon. Breath weapon use was limited to one use/long rest. The Fizban version of the Dragonborn was somewhat better than the 2014 version. Floating ASIs, a...

More like a Martial-Spellcaster divide. For several editions of D&D, the Ranger has straddled the line between being a martial class and a spellcasting class.

I wonder how long we'll have to wait for the Genasi to debut in 5.5 and what they'll look like compared to the 5.5 Aasimar and the 5.5 Tiefling.

This might be why EN Publishing made their Ranger more martial. They might have wanted a Ranger that relied more on skill and their training.

They would have been more appealing if they had access to the entire Ranger spell list and could prepare a number of spells/long rest. The A5e Ranger swapped out spells for combat maneuvers spread across 5 degrees.

I've been playing a 2014 Ranger since January 2023 and have relied more on the class's martial side than its' ability to cast spells.

It's a matter of perspective. While you might not see magic as being mundane, how does the character you play in an adventure see it? If the character is in a low magic setting, magic might still have that fantastical edge to it like it does in RL. But in a high magic setting, it could be...

Pathfinder has the Kobolds being color-coded. https://www.d20pfsrd.com/RACES/OTHER-RACES/FEATURED-RACES/ARG-KOBOLD/#kobold_scale_coloration

4e originally had the Dragonborn not resembling the dragons in terms of colors, and there was no sure way to know what kind of breath weapon they had (until they used it). The association between color and breath weapon for Dragonborn is a 5e thing. 4e was also the edition where WoTC tried to...