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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 5600672" data-attributes="member: 42582">It appears in stat blocks, yes, but does virtually no mechanical work. It is relevant to some PC-build options - some divine classes and some paragon paths - and it figures in one paladin PP power. I'm not a DDI subscriber, so it might also appear in a handful of Dragon magazine options. But the relevance of alignment to character building is minimal and to action resolution is almost nil.On the other hand, the ability of oozes to squeeze through small cracks, which is relevant to action resolution, appears in flavour text rather than stat blocks. (Though there is an argument that the definition of the ooze subtype, by referring to oozes as "amorphous", does imply that they have this squeezing ability.)So in my view, whether something is in a stat block or flavour text is indicative, but not ultimately determinative, of whether or not it is a mechanical matter.I can see the force of this. Even though I think that alignment is more central to D&D play and the D&D experience than do you (at least, this is my impression), I'd probably have to concede that races are more central.Perhaps races weren't mentioned because they were taken to be subsumed, to an extent, in classes - as per some versions of classic D&D.</blockquote>