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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kobold Avenger" data-source="post: 7599972" data-attributes="member: 779">Kara Tur has the races introduced from the 1e OA book, Korobukuru are another Dwarven subrace, Hengeyokai would be completely new PC race, and so would the Spirit Folk.I remember the 5e PHB does mention "Shou" as a Human ethnicity though it's more or less something that everyone labels anyone from Kara-Tur whether or not they're from Shou Lung, Tu Lung or the Island Kingdoms (the FR Philippines).I don't think there's justification to release any of OA's classes as new classes in 5e, some have already been covered by subclasses released and some could be covered by new sub classes.  They were considering at one point of having the Sohei as the psionic subclass of the Fighter, and Wu Jen was at one time considered to be a subclass of the Mystic before they abandoned that iteration of Psionics. But I could see the Sohei as being a Paladin subclass, and the Wu Jen being either a Wizard or Druid subclass.Most overlook the Spirit Folk, though they sort of exist between being the "Elves" of the setting and being another form of Planetouched associated with the Spirit Realms or Feywild.  One of the FR books of a vaguely Eastern European region even had "Slavic" Spirit Folk.  So there's definitely precedence for Spirit Folk to exist outside an OA setting.I feel the standard D&D races should be included in an Asian region, after all they have depicted non European Halflings at least, I remember one of the 3rd party campaign settings had "Punjabi" Gnomes in their art.  I know FR has an India too, but I don't think it's considered part of the continent of Kara-Tur.  But maybe India might get more attention if WotC decides to release the MtG setting Kaladesh (Magiteck India) as a D&D campaign setting in much of the same way they did with Ravnica.</blockquote>

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