D&D (2024) Should 2014 Half Elves and Half Orcs be added to the 2025 SRD?

[Mecheon]

They should absolutely be included, and it’s a bit silly they aren’t in the new PHB. God forbid they do something interesting for once.

I mean, they're doing something interesting for once

That's why half elves and half orcs aren't in the PHB.

 

[Vaalingrade]

They should absolutely be included, and it’s a bit silly they aren’t in the new PHB. God forbid they do something interesting for once.

WE literally keep forbidding them from doing anything intersecting for once because 'tradition'. Like how we're forbidding them from removing species that no longer have a reason to exist in favor of ones people might want to play.

No no no, Thing was in the game for more than one edition, Thing must remain Forever. That is not interesting.

 

[Mind of tempest]

wa

WE literally keep forbidding them from doing anything intersecting for once because 'tradition'. Like how we're forbidding them from removing species that no longer have a reason to exist in favor of ones people might want to play.

No no no, Thing was in the game for more than one edition, Thing must remain Forever. That is not interesting.

wait what were the proposed new options again?

 

[Remathilis]

wa

wait what were the proposed new options again?

Brewing.

 

[Vaalingrade]

wa

wait what were the proposed new options again?

Not new, just ones people want to play. Like orcs where they actually tried at designing them for play. Or aasimar where they actually tried at designing them for play. Or Grog.

 

[Mecheon]

wait what were the proposed new options again?

Aardling got dropped pretty quick for just aasimar again

Mind, aardling had that weird "are they trying to be beastfolk or trying to be angels" thing going on that it kind of didn't fulfil either desire

 

[Vaalingrade]

Core orc and core assimar aren't new, but they are something people want to play and want in core and actually handing them over instead of half measures is new.

 

[CreamCloud0]

so then, speaking of 'removing the old options' in favour of more interesting alternatives, hypothetically if we removed human, elf, dwarf, orc and halfling (tolkien's standard fantasy set) what five DnD species would we replace them with? to go alongside the remaining tiefling, aasimar, goliath dragonborn and gnome.

i would go with warforged, kobold, shifter, firbolg, and i'd make a composite species to cover all the different birdfolk (aarakocra, owlin, kenku, aven, siren...)

 

[Micah Sweet]

so then, speaking of 'removing the old options' in favour of more interesting alternatives, hypothetically if we removed human, elf, dwarf, orc and halfling (tolkien's standard fantasy set) what five DnD species would we replace them with? to go alongside the remaining tiefling, aasimar, goliath dragonborn and gnome.

i would go with warforged, kobold, shifter, firbolg, and i'd make a composite species to cover all the different birdfolk (aarakocra, owlin, kenku, aven, siren...)

I feel a relatable species needs to exist, in the same way that nearly every fantasy or science fiction has at least one character that basically reads as human.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Ogre, Spriggan, Gnome (Elemental Earth version), changelling, and Eberron halfling

And we get rid of gnome and Dragonborn in favor of kobold and an actual dragon person instead of a lizard folk with indigestion.