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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4199462" data-attributes="member: 710">Making races decidedly non-human and allow people to roleplay them is generally at odds. Yes, boobs might not be required, but all races that are playable need strong ties to human psychology and physiology. You can have dog-warrior races, you can have cat-rogue races, you can even have dragon-mage races, but in the end, they all need to be human enough for us to relate to. Really, consider D&D trying to resolve around playing humans alongside with Oozes, Blink Dogs and (real) Dragons. Aside from the balancing nightmare, you will have trouble creating meaningful social interaction and player identification. (I mean, I loved the idea of playing an Oozemaster, but even he is still somewhat human... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> )I like that idea a lot. I guess they didn't go for that, since the D&D Dragons are traditionally monochromatic. That might be a sacred cow that needs slaying (Dragons - color coded for your convenience!), but I suppose we might have to wait for another edition before this happens. (Or an awesome 3rd-party supplement.)Anthro meaning anthropomorphed? Absolutely.</blockquote>