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Frankly should have made something new up than pick gnolls, who have been playable since basic. Something being in every edition as 'yup these can be people, just weird hyena ones' probably wasn't the best idea, especially after their 4E interpretation was so well received Hence being watered...

Reincarnation roll gone spicy, or self-polymorph experiment to hide from debtors

To try to veer this topic back on topic (i say, after the metaphorical truck has already sailed mostly off the cliff it violently hurled towards), half elves were left out due to them being too similar to elves. That's their ultimate weakness you're not going to get around: half elves are...

Just dragging back to this, but, there's a lot of factors here. Half elves being, mechanically, a really strong race is one thing to note, along with the fact that half elves and elves are free, but kobolds are a paid option If I wanted to really make things messy I'd point out that, for custom...

The Creature Crucible 3 are their own weird little segment because, sure, you got sphinges in there, but just the same you've also got downright regular re-occurring ones like Pixies and Centaurs from Tall Tales, and Aquatic Elves and Tritons from Sea Peoples which, I reckon most people would...

Technically don't playable gnomes slip into Mystara due to Top Balista? I don't think said flying mechanical city ever showed up again, but the implication I got was that it was wherever you wanted it to be in there.

Turtle people are like, baby's second anthropomisation. So, yeah, its grounded and relatable because enough Warcraft has me associated tortles with a certain memetic phrase from Warcraft. So, yeah, a bunch of old folks (turtles are wrinkly, live a long time, and are slow, so those are the...

Are we gonna have to have that discussion about how D&D wears its influence on its sleaves or should I just go right to the part where there was a Morbius creature in the Fiend Factory (Didn't make it to the Folio, but showed how the influences came in), how 1E stuff had Mars encounter tables...

The issue you really do face with half elves is they're Elves Light. At the moment, in a case where races aren't adding too much to things, it does raise the question of using your limited space for two options that are really similar to each other I get they have their fans, but that's the...

And the reason they're not in is the weakness of their lore in the game's history and the generally Weirdness that "Yeah you're half an elf and half a human" is suppoed to be a regular and common enough thing that's regular as an adventurer that you exclude other races. I get it used to be...

Aardling got dropped pretty quick for just aasimar again Mind, aardling had that weird "are they trying to be beastfolk or trying to be angels" thing going on that it kind of didn't fulfil either desire

I mean, they're doing something interesting for once That's why half elves and half orcs aren't in the PHB.

They've had 50 years to get unique lore out of "I can mix the chocolate ice cream with the mint and the vanilla" and they've never had it. This isn't community reseting things, this is "The only decent attempt at it has ever been Eberron and that barely touched half orcs at all". When the...

Goliaths, ever since 3.5E, have always been "Half giants with the psionic weirdness stripped away" The giant thing is just going back to their roots. Choco-vanilla and choco-mint may taste nice, but if you offer me 8 unique ice cream flavours and half of them are just mixes of the other four...

I'm fine with the lack of wings, but tails are a must have. Once again, my go-to for Dragonborn are Drakonids from Warcraft who don't have wings (the winged ones are the winged Dracthyr, a different group of dragon-people resulting from horrific experiments on hundreds of incredibly unlucky...

If a dragon was just a winged lizard we wouldn't be having this discussion but, they're not even built like lizards. Physically they're nothing the same? They're more like dinosaurs if anything, and if you say dinosaurs are lizards? That is wrong in every sense of the word. Dinosaurs are...

Bats and pidgeons are commonly referred as 'flying rats', but that's still wrong on both halves. Dragons are clearly completely unrelated to the lizard side of sauropsidia, and don't even physically function like any lizard, even wyvern-esque ones can't be lizards due to the blatent mammalian...

Orcs are orcs, they own the niche already, also a bit of barbarian wild-man to it that you can toy around with, but they absolutely don't have 'nobility' to it, while dragonborn do Goliaths are either half-giants or wilderness survialists which, once again, doesn't have that noble warrior group...

I'm sorry to drag this in from a while ago but, dragons don't really look fully reptilian, and every single winged dragon in D&D's history has had a mammalian feature. Right so we're going to have to talk about what exactly is a 'reptile' here but, D&D's done a push pretty constantly that...

D&D sort of doesn't help with its main four things being "Human", "Short human", "Shorter human" and "Human with weird ears". When that's the baseline, Its easy to fit "Lizard-man", "Dragon-man" and "Snake-man" in with that as each has its own niche to fill Mind we're still ages away from 2E...