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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vince_Snetterton" data-source="post: 8453273" data-attributes="member: 7033114">And all those traits lead to unplayable chars. Inevitably, Goblins as you describe will steal from party members, Hobgoblins will attack PC's and NPC's alike if they feel slighted, and your Bugbear trait....well, you just described an unplayable sociopath. So why even have such species available as playable chars? The game is  not about one player thinking a particular species is "cool" to play, the rest of the group be damned. It is about working together as a group toward a common goal, or goals. I played tonight. One player, who stated that this was his first in-person D&D group, says his Bard is going to get drunk (DM applies various penalties to his char when drunk)  and play the Bagpipes as we venture into dungeons of unknown size and danger levels. He thinks his char is "cool", and the rest of the party will enjoy his antics, no matter how much risk the party is exposed to.Wanna bet how much party members will enjoy the "antics" of a Goblin, Hobgoblin, or Bugbear that you have described?</blockquote>