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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tormyr" data-source="post: 6376700" data-attributes="member: 6776887">I chose yes, although I am not quite that excited.  I think PCs as non-traditional races should be rare and have a good story-based reason for occurring.When we got ready to start our 5e campaign in April (starting under the September 2013 play test rules).  One of my players came up with the idea for a half-gnoll paladin.  While I would normally not go for this, in our last campaign the player had played a male human druid who had attracted the attention of a chaotic good female gnoll from a gnoll aasimar tribe.  At the end of our set of adventures, the druid received word that he needed to return to the village to discuss matters of a personal nature.  The half-gnoll paladin was the result of their union.  I liked it so much that we worked together on how to make it work.  During the pre PHB time, we reskinned the half-orc and had him use that.  When the PHB came out and the Gnoll race in the basic MM pdf came out, we had enough to make a race similar to what you would find in the PHB.He ended up with the following:+2 strength+1 dexteritydarkvisionLanguages: Gnoll and CommonRampage: take a creature down to 0 hp, may take a bonus action to move up to half of speed and make another single melee attack.He is a little light on racial features.  If the higher CR Gnolls in the MM have other features, I will probably give those to the character as well.I think you can make a player character out of most creatures in the MM. Using the MM entry as a guide:+2 to the highest ability in the MM entry+1 to the next highest abilityDarkvision and senses as notedCommon and the creature's primary languageCreature's speedAny features that are not overpowered.I think the new race should be mechanically equivalent to the races in the PHB or even a tiny bit worse.  It should not be better overall than any other race in the PHB.  I think playing a non-standard race should be part of the reward in itself.</blockquote>

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