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Anyone else hope they add some FR races to the setting like Saurials, Wemics, Shades, etc...?
I would like to see the Saurials and Wemics, but not Shades and Fey'ri. I love the latter two races far more than the former two, but Shades and Fey'ri were powerful races far beyond the bog standard PHB races. 5e, though, is allergic to creating races that have more power, so if they did make them, you'd end up with Shades being on par with Gnomes, Halflings and Humans. That would bug the hell out of me.

What I'd also like to see, though, are more FR subclasses like Red Wizard and Witches of Rashemen. And some of the FR specific magic items.
 

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Coming back to this, as I've been reading the DMG, Tiamat is mentioned (and illustrated) quite a bit. I know she's somewhat outgrown her origins, but she still remains a Mesopotamian deity at her core, which may indicate that perhaps the Mesopotamian/Untheric deities might not be off the table. Or, conversely, deities that have taken on a D&D life of their own (like say Tyr) are still permissable despite their origins. I guess we'll see next year. It's going to be interesting to see how all this is handled.
Well, also the ancient Mesopotamian religion is a bit different in that it is quite forgotten, be entirely a re-discovery of modern archeology. Very different from Greek, Norse, Egyptian, or worse Hindu religion.
 

I would like to see the Saurials and Wemics, but not Shades and Fey'ri. I love the latter two races far more than the former two, but Shades and Fey'ri were powerful races far beyond the bog standard PHB races. 5e, though, is allergic to creating races that have more power, so if they did make them, you'd end up with Shades being on par with Gnomes, Halflings and Humans. That would bug the hell out of me.

What I'd also like to see, though, are more FR subclasses like Red Wizard and Witches of Rashemen. And some of the FR specific magic items.

Fey'ri are flavours of Cambion, Shades would be fine if you represented any racial powers beyond the basic ones as feats.

You could do Wemics as a mechanical update of Leonin, who actually do a good job as stats for Wemics to begin with even if Wemics have more legs.
 

Coming back to this, as I've been reading the DMG, Tiamat is mentioned (and illustrated) quite a bit. I know she's somewhat outgrown her origins, but she still remains a Mesopotamian deity at her core, which may indicate that perhaps the Mesopotamian/Untheric deities might not be off the table. Or, conversely, deities that have taken on a D&D life of their own (like say Tyr) are still permissable despite their origins. I guess we'll see next year. It's going to be interesting to see how all this is handled.

This is completely a series of rationalization foe double standards, Zeus has appeared in far more fictional media then Tyr with no real blowback including far, far more insulting appearances then anything in D&D.

And the only Hindu complaint in Media I've seen was the one from Xena where the complaint was from more homophobic elements of India, I won't go into the details.
 

You could do Wemics as a mechanical update of Leonin, who actually do a good job as stats for Wemics to begin with even if Wemics have more legs.
A Wemic would have the feline equivalent of the Centaur's Equine Build trait in addition to all of the Leonin traits. :)

  • Equine Build. You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push or drag. In addition, any climb that requires hands and feet is especially difficult for you because of your equine legs. When you make such a climb, each foot of movement costs you 4 extra feet, instead of the normal 1 extra foot.
 

A Wemic would have the feline equivalent of the Centaur's Equine Build trait in addition to all of the Leonin traits. :)

  • Equine Build. You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push or drag. In addition, any climb that requires hands and feet is especially difficult for you because of your equine legs. When you make such a climb, each foot of movement costs you 4 extra feet, instead of the normal 1 extra foot.

Lions have no problem with steps unlike Horses, so no need for that, cats have no problem climbing stuff they have no business being able climb.
 

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