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

[CleverNickName]

I didn't have anything against the Warforged; they're a must-have in Eberron settings, but seem out of place elsewhere. In play, I feel like they're a little bit overrated, and people who really like them try too hard to convince others to like them also, but that's my only gripe. It's certainly not unique to this particular species.

 

[Undrave]

I find it peculiar that everyone seems to be going for the weird and wonderfully different before hunting down the myriads of subraces first.

I'm trying to cut down on extraneous Elves and totally superfluous Tieflings but I'm just one guy... I'm trying not to target single races (Kender are just a Halfling sub race >.>)

hey, I have been trying to knock out human.

Does anyone know why sea elves exist? beyond the fact if you dumb a bunch of elves in an environment they adapt to it and gain a retroactive history in that slab of land ten thousand years long

Of all the old race to bring back, ‘Sea Elves’ should have been WAAAY down the totempole. Is anyone actually nostalgic for the Ben & Jerry’s Book of Elves? We already have Water Genasis and Triton, if you need more water themed races, why not make new ones? Ones that aren’t just ‘these guys but they live in water’. I’ve long championed the inclusion of Horseshoecrabfolks.

 

[Vaalingrade]

I find it peculiar that everyone seems to be going for the weird and wonderfully different before hunting down the myriads of subraces first.

I called it. The sins of modernity and novelty and being interesting must be cleansed so the elves may flow.

 

[CleverNickName]

I called it. The sins of modernity and novelty and being interesting must be cleansed so the elves may flow.

Relax, we all knew it would come down to the Superweirds vs. Lord of the Rings, and LotR is outnumbered 6-to-1...it doesn't stand a chance.

Which of the Superweirds are your favorites? What do you not like about the LotR options? Those are the parts I'm interested in.

 

[Corinnguard]

Sounds pretty close to the 5E D&D game to me...

Seriously though, you're precisely right...some of these options are at an unfair advantage. (I wrote a blurb about that in the first post too.) I don't know why Wizards of the Coast created a dozen different flavors of Tiefling but only one flavor of Aasimar, but that's the direction they took.

In Pathfinder, it's a slightly better story for the Aasimar. In that RPG, you can play a generic Aasimar ("I don't know what kind of Celestial my ancestor was.") or an Aasimar who has one of six distinct Aasimar linages (Agathion, Angel, Archon, Azata, Garuda and Peri).

I say slightly better because they're still outnumbered by the Tieflings and all of their lineages. There are 10 Tiefling linages in Pathfinder.

 

[Mind of tempest]

Relax, we all knew it would come down to the Superweirds vs. Lord of the Rings, and one of them is outnumbered 6-to-1. LotR doesn't stand a chance.

Which of the Superweirds are your favorites? What do you not like about the LotR options? Those are the parts I'm interested in.

look I have not seen a decent interpretation of Tolkien races in years and I got nothing to add to them, it is lack anything to really add thus I want to move on to new things myself.
also, I hate elves because they eat up my preferred area of setting design and I hate them.

and I really hate halflings.

In Pathfinder, it's a slightly better story for the Aasimar. In that RPG, you can play a generic Aasimar ("I don't know what kind of Celestial my ancestor was.") or an Aasimar who has one of six distinct Aasimar linages (Agathion, Angel, Archon, Azata, Garuda and Peri).

I say slightly better because they're still outnumbered by the Tieflings and all of their lineages. There are 10 Tiefling linages in Pathfinder.

okay, but past looking cooler or having slightly different powers what makes the pathfinder ones better?

 

[AnotherGuy]

I'm trying to cut down on extraneous Elves and totally superfluous Tieflings but I'm just one guy... I'm trying not to target single races (Kender are just a Halfling sub race >.>)

Of all the old race to bring back, ‘Sea Elves’ should have been WAAAY down the totempole. Is anyone actually nostalgic for the Ben & Jerry’s Book of Elves? We already have Water Genasis and Triton, if you need more water themed races, why not make new ones? Ones that aren’t just ‘these guys but they live in water’. I’ve long championed the inclusion of Horseshoecrabfolks.

I'm with you on cutting down some of those extraneous elves.
I just was sad to see Centaur go so quick.

 

[Corinnguard]

look I have not seen a decent interpretation of Tolkien races in years and I got nothing to add to them, it is lack anything to really add thus I want to move on to new things myself.
also, I hate elves because they eat up my preferred area of setting design and I hate them.

and I really hate halflings.

okay, but past looking cooler or having slightly different powers what makes the pathfinder ones better?

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.

 

[Mind of tempest]

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.

okay, but what is interesting, I am poor and a uni student buying a random book is a bit of an ask so can you give examples beyond has more options or link me to some one explaining it?

 

[Gradine]

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