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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Parmandur" data-source="post: 6930572" data-attributes="member: 6780330">They did survey us in June last year, about settings and class/race options we wanted to see.  Goblins, Aasmir and Thri-Kreen werre "tier 1" for desired player races, and [MENTION=697]mearls[/MENTION] said the following:"The next most popular tier of races includes catfolk, devas, githyanki, githzerai, gnolls, half-giants, hobgoblins, kender, kobolds, lizardfolk, pixies, and revenants. Personally, I’d love to pick up Mystara’s rakasta as our catfolk race, but all these options have strong legacies to build on. The less-popular races are by no means off the table, but they’re likely at the back of the R&D queue—and might run the risk of other races beyond those addressed in this survey cutting in line ahead of them."So, Gnollsolls are a desired PC race; however, the primary input was during the Next playtest, when James Wyatt designed the "monster bible" using gamer feedback.  And IIRC, which is hard to know since I can't find the Wandering Monsters archive, people wanted Gnolls to double, if not triple, down on the demonic monstrosity angle.  And based on the podcast, Gnolls are now not a true breeding race as much as a low level demonic infestation that has warped a hyena, only made by infesting more hyenas.  I imagine that they could not reconcile that with being allowed at an AL table.</blockquote>