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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Myopic Sniper" data-source="post: 9347537" data-attributes="member: 55013">I think the Goliath is occupying that space. It seems like early on that they decided they wanted 12 classes and 4 subclasses, 12 species and 16 backgrounds with a lot of built-in symmetry of opposite choices. They floated the Aardling as possible more colorful alternative knowing that they would use Aasimar as the backup. I am pretty sure all of the "why not just use an Aasimar in this spot?" because of the divine flavor they were offering against the Tiefling only reinforced that. I am not sure what would have ended up in the Goliath position if that had failed, maybe a non-divine, non-magical Animalfolk type which I would have probably preferred to having in the core over both the Goliath and Aasimar. I get why they limited how they were going to approach this design space, but they may have got too hung up on specific numbers and everything being overly symmetrical to test some concepts that might have actually gotten more traction.</blockquote>