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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5804610" data-attributes="member: 82106">Well, in all fairness all editions from 2e onward (and even 1e to some extent depending on how much Dragon stuff or whatever you were willing to use) has had loads of races and potentially a lot of classes. I don't think we need a lot of really weird stuff in any core material. OTOH certain 4e races were fairly well-liked, including deva, dragonborn, goliath, and shifter IME. I'd be happy to see those 4 well supported in 5e. Tiefling probably counts too for some people, though I haven't seen much interest in it personally. Minotaurs seem to have been popular with some people as well, but I think 'monstrous' type races can certainly wait for some 3PP or later supplementary stuff.Clearly no one race list is going to satisfy everyone. Classes likewise. I could see a number of those being themes or some sort of subclass or whatever. I think races don't work too well as themes though, it seems pretty limiting and just oddly asymmetrical and likely to lead to more complications to do the same thing more than one way. There are 'race-like' options, Vampire, Werewolf, or Revenant from 4e (I guess the Kalashtar and Shade too for that matter) that could be theme-like.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 5804610, member: 82106"] Well, in all fairness all editions from 2e onward (and even 1e to some extent depending on how much Dragon stuff or whatever you were willing to use) has had loads of races and potentially a lot of classes. I don't think we need a lot of really weird stuff in any core material. OTOH certain 4e races were fairly well-liked, including deva, dragonborn, goliath, and shifter IME. I'd be happy to see those 4 well supported in 5e. Tiefling probably counts too for some people, though I haven't seen much interest in it personally. Minotaurs seem to have been popular with some people as well, but I think 'monstrous' type races can certainly wait for some 3PP or later supplementary stuff. Clearly no one race list is going to satisfy everyone. Classes likewise. I could see a number of those being themes or some sort of subclass or whatever. I think races don't work too well as themes though, it seems pretty limiting and just oddly asymmetrical and likely to lead to more complications to do the same thing more than one way. There are 'race-like' options, Vampire, Werewolf, or Revenant from 4e (I guess the Kalashtar and Shade too for that matter) that could be theme-like. [/QUOTE]

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