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see, i wouldn't call that deceptive railroading due to being so barefaced about it, deceptive railroading IMO would more be the 'quantum ogre' of plot progression, where whatever you do initially seems successful but ultimately only ends up leading you back into the planned plot without you...

fighter already has enough MAD issues to be giving them multiple extra stats to need to be distributing their boosts across a subclass

this may be a result of confusion between people using both the uses of determine? between the process of finding the equivalent meaning of the runes in a language they understand, and deciding the meaning of the runes they want AKA "hope for"

didn't they used to have like, aesthetically metallic bodies in a previous edition or something? that'd be a cool distinguishing look to bring back for them.

Post 20,000! Let’s give it up for post 20,000! Wooo!

well you like to assume you've done so, and so long as they don't just start trying to re-negotiate any of the principle terms of the campaign concept.

i can't say i felt like that response was meant to be taken in an entirely serious light, but that's just IMO. i feel there's less difference between them than you think, while i won't deny it doesn't happen GMs don't all go around banning species for the sake of it, but they have a premise and...

see, thing is when we propose a curated campaign it's less a caricature like the first and more, an inbetween of those: "Alright guys. I'm running a campaign inspired by Archaic Greece mixed with the Trojan War, the Greek city-states vs Persia but with lots of myth stuff. Lots of races you...

in hindsight i should've been more specific about meaning when they were first originally added, (although seemingly the sentiment still lingers among some), however as it has been mentioned how crudely the method of their addition was implemented of them being dimensionally airdropped into the...

Discworld alignments feel like they're actually set on the axis's of trope/genre savvy<->trope/genre unaware VS plays to them<->defies them

you know for a game literally named dungeons and dragons i'm kind of surprised that dragonborn get as much dislike as they do, i would've thought they'd fit right in.

is an adventuring group made up with all of them called a salad? :unsure:

well, the plant person concept extends past dryads being the sole basis, they don't need to make a player species with that limitation if they do make a plant person species.

ah yeah that's fair, probably not going to take out the 'neutral default' human as an option, that reminds me though, i've considered the concept of a full... pseudo-human..? setting, not being able to immediately visually tell a character's species, you've got humans obviously, but also...

i can't believe 5e still doesn't have a proper playable dryad option, plant people are, well, while not a favourite concept exactly are still very much a staple one, LotR even had the ent's for goodness sake even if those didn't get brought into the spotlight with the rest of the tolkien species.

i'd like to what would get created if the mould was broken a little more and the tolkien core four/five and their well-worn dynamics weren't inserted into every setting as default, what might you get with a setting where your baseline species are a lineup of, say, dragonborn, gnomes, kobolds...

in a similar situation to two other posters earlier in the thread (twosix and someone else i believe it was) i actually see this in the opposite way, it's much more justifiable IMO that someone somewhere in some small corner of the world managed to cultivate some new source or application of...

i've considered something similar before while thinking about species, dwarves got light geokinesis (BA mold earth and earth tremor), halflings maybe you can lean into their history of being good throwers? (i know it's not hugely thematic but it's something) give them increased range/accuracy...

sorry for picking at this, but i just need to point out that there's no h in tiefling.

IMO pretty much the only real difference between them is how widely known they are, and given i know pretty much absolutely nothing about Glantri or Forgotten Realms or the rest of them then it's as much of a blind plunge for me to go for official settings as it would be for their original...