A mystery race ?

[Aeolius]

The mystery race is obviously Mysterian, a mysterious race from the lost continent of Mysteria.

"The Mysterons: sworn enemies of Earth. Possessing the ability to recreate an exact likeness of an object or person. But first, they must destroy..."

 

[grimslade]

I don't really feel Changlings should be introduced into the Player's Handbook. It simply doesn't seem to really mesh with the foundations of the general game.

Reserving special races, such as the Changling, Warforged (and even the Eladrin in their current incarnation) should stick with SPLAT books.

What do you mean by 'special'? Do you mean different than the core races from AD&D?

I think we can move past the original core races with 4E. Indeed, they already are with the inclusion of the tiefling in the PHB. I feel the Changeling is less intrusive than the Warforged or Tiefling. Lizardfolk or a dragonman race would be less intrusive still. Leaving the races human, thin pretty human, short and stout bearded human, short human, short bearded human who likes illusions and ugly humans would be bland.
Take it from someone who has only had human and halfling characters in 25 years of gaming. ;P

 

[Daniel D. Fox]

I believe a lot of my opinions regarding Changlings, Tieflings and the like stems from the fact that I absolutely abhorr demihuman and alternative races to humans. There are enough cultures, personality types and backgrounds to make humans just as diverse and unique as elves, dwarves, halflings and so-such.

Then again, that relies entirely off of a good gaming group and a DM who vests interest and develops the campaign world into the more "boring" races (like humans).

 

[RandomCitizenX]

I am hoping that the new PHB race is going to fill the big strong guy role. I'm not sure which race it should be, but I would definately like it to be something large sized(so we have 1 small, 1 large, and the rest medium)

 

[Rechan]

I believe a lot of my opinions regarding Changlings, Tieflings and the like stems from the fact that I absolutely abhorr demihuman and alternative races to humans.

Meanwhile, there are those of us who adhorr playing humans. Everyone posting on this board is a human. Everyone in the world is a human. Let me sit down for four or five hours a week and pretend to be something else for a change. If I can throw fireballs and slay dragons, then it's not a far stretch to throw fireballs and slay dragons while not being human.

The only reason I'd ever play a human is for the mechanical benefit.

 

[Rel]

The only reason I'd ever play a human is for the mechanical benefit.

This is the reason I decided to be one in real life.

 

[Kwalish Kid]

In regard to the "mystery character" -- Note that it appeared in an alphabetical list of characters by race between eladrin and elf. Given the likely null likelihood of the psionic race of elan making PHB1 -- What other race could fit that gap? My best guess would favor an "eladrinkin" race -- a half-elf race whose non-human ancestry comes from the eladrin race rather than the new elf race. The introduction of this race would suggest a plan to purge the half-races that cannot be given new names, with the result that half-orcs are gone.

Eladrinkin: Iconic is Alhandra, a female eladrinkin paladin.

What the hell am I, eladrinkin in LA at 26?

 

[ferratus]

I'm planning to go with Human, Kenku, Dromites and Lizardfolk as core races in the PHB. Basically, I'm going on the premise that the major species come from each animal kindom (plus insects). Sahuagin and Kuo-Toa are going to represent fish and amphibians, but I don't really see them working as PC races.

 

[Kesh]

I am hoping it is some kind of panda-human hybrid, called Pandablood. They can be from the Pandawild plane and have the prestige class of Bamboostalker.

No, then you would have people screaming "4e is WoW!"

Pandaren

 

[Joh]

Since they have Tieflings from the abyss, and Eladrin from the Feywild, wouldn't it make the most amount of sense to complete the trifecta include a race that comes from the Shadow?

I wouldn't be surprised if the upcoming race(s) fulfilled the role of coming from the Shadow, and being brutish. Probably something we haven't seen before.