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<blockquote data-quote="Nickolaidas" data-source="post: 6828011" data-attributes="member: 6803584"><p>Dragonborn. Gnome. Half-Elf. Half-Orc. Tiefling.</p><p></p><p>These are the races the Player's Handbook says they're truly exotic (and less known) that the vanilla / classic races. It gives them the necessary info for a player to create one, and they're hardly seen or heard of from that point on. I recently bought Hoard of the Dragon Queen, and as I skimmed through the book, I was amazed to see that there wasn't a single Dragonborn inside the book. As an NPC, as a monster ... nothing. </p><p></p><p>So it got me thinking. Those of you guys who have bought all the books so far, where exactly have you seen pictures or references to the exotic races other than the Player's Handbook and the Sword Coast's Adventurer's Guide (besides the pages which refer specifically to them for character creation purposes)? If the answer is 'nowhere', then I'm a bit disappointed in this, because it makes these races seem less important or part of the D&D game. They seem more like 'an optional rule', rather than vanilla stuff.</p><p></p><p>I simply don't understand why the game designers chose to take this approach and deliberately distance themselves from these races, as if they're the lepers of the game. 5th Edition gives me the impression that I should pick a human, dwarf, elf or Halfling. The others are like, 'eh, in case you want something different, have a go at these guys as well', rather than 'these are the races you can play as'.</p><p></p><p>Thoughts?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nickolaidas, post: 6828011, member: 6803584"] Dragonborn. Gnome. Half-Elf. Half-Orc. Tiefling. These are the races the Player's Handbook says they're truly exotic (and less known) that the vanilla / classic races. It gives them the necessary info for a player to create one, and they're hardly seen or heard of from that point on. I recently bought Hoard of the Dragon Queen, and as I skimmed through the book, I was amazed to see that there wasn't a single Dragonborn inside the book. As an NPC, as a monster ... nothing. So it got me thinking. Those of you guys who have bought all the books so far, where exactly have you seen pictures or references to the exotic races other than the Player's Handbook and the Sword Coast's Adventurer's Guide (besides the pages which refer specifically to them for character creation purposes)? If the answer is 'nowhere', then I'm a bit disappointed in this, because it makes these races seem less important or part of the D&D game. They seem more like 'an optional rule', rather than vanilla stuff. I simply don't understand why the game designers chose to take this approach and deliberately distance themselves from these races, as if they're the lepers of the game. 5th Edition gives me the impression that I should pick a human, dwarf, elf or Halfling. The others are like, 'eh, in case you want something different, have a go at these guys as well', rather than 'these are the races you can play as'. Thoughts? [/QUOTE]
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