D&D 5E Companion thread to 5E Survivor: Species

[RealAlHazred]

Sad to see Yuan-ti go; I've always enjoyed them, at least conceptually, and I'd love to see them better utilized.

I like the variant Keith Baker made for Eberron, who instead of human-snake hybrids are human-coatl hybrids -- the Shulassakar. An intriguing way to make the old standards more interesting.

 

[Gradine]

I like the variant Keith Baker made for Eberron, who instead of human-snake hybrids are human-coatl hybrids -- the Shulassakar. An intriguing way to make the old standards more interesting.

See that's the thing about Eberron; races are simply more interesting in Eberron.

Except Dwarves, which are always the same.

 

[Scribe]

Plasmoid down.

 

[RoughCoronet0]

I love the Yuan-ti just because they are snake people and snakes are some of my favorite animals. However, the three sun-species of Yuan-ti on my world all look like either the iconic abomination (snake with arms) or like the Sethrak from Warcraft.

 

[Undrave]

Simple, Pathfinder devoted an entire book to them.

Back in 2e D&D, there were books such as The Complete Book of Elves or The Complete Book of Dwarves that fleshed out the player character races for the players. Ditto for 3e D&D's Races of the Wild or Races of Stone. This practice was dropped by the time 4e came around and has not been resurrected by WoTC as far as I know.

Pathfinder 1st edition kept this tradition going by coming out with it's own racially specific Companion books such as The Kobolds of Golarion or the Blood of Angels, which I summarized in another forum thread on Enworld.org.

The Aasimar in 5e need a more diversified origin as there are quite a number of Celestials besides the angels.

Actually, at the tail end of 4e, before Essential, WOTC experiemented with publishing paperback 32 pages source books dedicated to races. They published one for Tiefling and one for Dragonborn. Each one had pages of lore and backstory, help with your character’s personality and background, dedicated Paragon Paths, an Epic Destiny, as well as feats. I have the Tiefling one, it's pretty nifty.

Player's Handbook Races: Dragonborn (4e) - Wizards of the Coast | Dungeons & Dragons 4e | Dungeons & Dragons 4e | Dungeon Masters Guild

Player's Handbook Races: Dragonborn (4e) - Proud and Honorable Warriors If you want to play the ultimate dragonborn hero, this book is for you. This DUNGEONS &

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Player's Handbook Races: Tieflings (4e) - Wizards of the Coast | Dungeons & Dragons 4e | Dungeons & Dragons 4e | Dungeon Masters Guild

Player's Handbook Races: Tieflings (4e) - It's Good to Be Bad Tieflings survived brutal wars and fiendish pacts to become what they are today: sinister scions of

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[Scribe]

 

[Aurel Guthrie]

I'll admit it. I killed warforged because it was at 1 and it was just too tempting, not because I have something against it. Give me a loaded gun and I'll use it.
(and also, it was really unlikely it was gonna win, and we really gotta trim the list)

 

[Undrave]

What happened?

 

[Scribe]

What happened?

My mutually assured destruction clause was hit.

 

[CleverNickName]

For those who seek to trim the list a bit, I'd like to call your attention to the various animal-headed humans on the list. We've got bird-men, cat-men, rabbit-men, insect-men, fish-men, seriously it's like the Island of Dr. Moreau in there. Roll up your sleeves and help me do what needs to be done.