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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Minigiant" data-source="post: 9636097" data-attributes="member: 63508">There's a logic to it. <ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Wizards did polling on their players and found that a lot of their players play species and races that were in the past not playable because those species and races will only seen as villainous or evil. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Wizards also did research into their past and found that some third party or older books would paint these past only evils species in the cultures of real life cultures. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Once they decided to make those species playable, They would either have to include the other species as monsters to be killed in the Monster Manual or remove all playable species from the Monster Manning book as long as they're humanoid. </li> </ol>Wizards chose not to make a human or halfling stat block for you to stab in the Monster Manual. They decided that any humanoid stat block that reference a specific species would have to be setting dependent which matches how their current player base thinks.Blame Warcraft and lazy artists of the past.</blockquote>