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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 5739350" data-attributes="member: 22424">The offline Character Builder had a handy "configure" page, allowing you to quickly and easily filter options by source. Narrowing it down to the "Core 3" only, or indeed whatever other set of sources you wanted, was child's play. I would be surprised if the online CB doesn't contain a similar option.What would be nice would be an option for the DM to set up a more detailed profile for his campaign that allows much greater control over options (perhaps he doesn't want Dragonborn, for example). The system would of course need to allow the DM to export that profile and send it to his players for their later use.(I'm not sure how much work that would actually be. Certainly, I consider it a "nice to have" rather than a "must have" feature.)I once thought as you did. I was particularly annoyed by the comments that "Gnomes don't really have a niche", which was definitely untrue (trickster).But...The truth is that when 4e was released with the Dragonborn and Tiefling in place, the world didn't end. It was easy for groups to just ignore them if they didn't want them, and DMs always had the power to ban them. And WotC very quickly moved to support the 'missing' races, so that wasn't an enormous issue.The Dragonborn and Tiefling are popular - more popular than either the Gnome or the Half-orc were. They are interesting races, each with their own character, and they genuinely do bring something to the game. (The same would be true of the Warforged and the Shardmind, IMO.)If I were doing a 5e PHB, I would definitely drop the Eladrin and the Half-elf from the list of races. I can certainly see an argument for restoring the Gnome and Half-orc in their place. But, yeah, I think the Shardmind and the Warforged just have a stronger claim at this time.</blockquote>

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