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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8715674" data-attributes="member: 58172">To the original post, kinda.Some race concepts are very powerful, complex, and diverse with different possible powers. For example, I feel a playable vampire can only be done by means of a class. The concept requires a huge design space. It would start the lowest tier as spawn and advance to the highest tier as an earth-shaking immortal legend. Meanwhile, there are many kinds of traditions about vampires, each one a separate subclass to choose from.Oppositely, I did create a playable werewolf. To my surprise, I created a satisfactory werewolf within the design space of a single feat. This feat is a solid basis if I wanted to create a werewolf race, with a little bit more design space to play with.I would avoid making the elf a race, because it would be too reductive when the elf is too many different possibilities.That said, if I wanted to create an individual elf whose character concepts models the 1e elf archetype, I would just make it a high elf Eldritch Knight. If a "grey elf", I would make it a Bladesinger.For a BECMI concept, I would make sure the high elf Eldritch Knight is Strength, not Dexterity.Dwarf is a Fighter, Champion or Battlemaster.Halfling is a Rogue.I would make it clear that not every elf, dwarf, or halfling is like this. Some are other classes. But it might be fun for a party to play out characters representing the classic tropes.</blockquote>