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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8693649" data-attributes="member: 6915329">It's a significantly large number. Between borrowing friend's books or getting them to read/copypaste the stats to you, finding the stats online (Roll20 has the all of the PHB races, minus a few subraces, freely available; D&D Beyond seems to have them all, but I only checked a few), and outright piracy, I'd be surprised if anyone was using only the SRD.How much detail does a halfling village really need? I took a quick look and the book also mentions but fails to go into any detail that I could find (it was a quick look) about human villages and a wood elf enclave. It seems to me that:(A) that one sentence doesn't take anything away from the adventure and doesn't take up so much room that other "more interesting" things were left out.(B) that one sentence adds some color to the world, making it contain more than just boring humans as the friendlies.(C) that one sentence means that if the players are looking for a village to restock at or to spend the night, there are lots of them around so the DM can just say "Sure! You almost missed it because it was small, but the plumes of smoke you see over the next hill lead you to a tiny village populated by halflings," without having to refer to the map to find out if they were close to one.(D) removing that one line or changing it so they were human villages wouldn't make the adventure better or more interesting in any way. You had me thinking that these sourcebooks were wasting precious pages on something pointless, when all you were talking about is a single line that you are free to ignore!Except that you can add those races to the next PHB without taking anything away. As I mentioned before, the Level Up main book is 650 pages. A lot of those pages are dedicated to things that aren't in o5e, like maneuvers and strongholds. The current o5e PHB is only about 300 or so pages long. The 6e PHB could contain every single race that's currently in 5e, even the ones that are setting-dependant like warforged, reborn, and vedalken, and still be a lot shorter than the current LU Adventurer's Guide.And 400,000 people is not "no one." Please stop saying that. You are diminishing the interests of nearly half a million people because you don't like their choice, when their choice doesn't affect you at all.</blockquote>

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