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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mecheon" data-source="post: 9464401" data-attributes="member: 6801776">Goliaths, ever since 3.5E, have always been "Half giants with the psionic weirdness stripped away"The giant thing is just going back to their roots.Choco-vanilla and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfkBYHFZAt8" target="_blank">choco-mint</a> may taste nice, but if you offer me 8 unique ice cream flavours and half of them are just mixes of the other four, I think I'm well in the right to call out that they're not actually unique.Unique mechanics doesn't make a race, their flavour makes them the mix of their two parent species, and due to that they honestly don't deserve to be in the starter book alongside basic stuff like "Human" and "Halfling", where you're throwing the simple basic options to show how to play the game. Making complicated stuff like "Oh your parent were X and Y" should be for down the line and later products, you don't need to know how to make them on the basic starter bookTabaxi and goblins deserve to be in the PHB well before half elves and half orcs because 'cat person' and 'goblin (affectionate)' are widespread, recognisable niches that are unique and stand out as options. Half orcs and half elves are just variants on the existing ones at their core.</blockquote>