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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 9412798" data-attributes="member: 22779">I think this hits it better.  You have something like Tieflings, which are pretty popular, and then you have all the other "Planar races" which combined, might, just maybe, equal one of the least played races in the PHB.  And, frankly, because they're shoved off into optional books, they almost never feature in an adventure or setting book because, the adventures and setting books must include all the PHB races first.I mean, sure, Phaldelin is fantastic.  I love the town.  But, where's the genasi farmer?  It's not like genasi are all that rare in Forgotten Realms.  Yet, the only races you see in the adventure are the PHB races.  Candlekeep Mysteries brings in a village of Grippli near Candlekeep, and that's fantastic, but, that's it.  You don't see any non-phb races featured (as far as I can remember) in the adventure.  On and on.  Even Waterdeep Dragonheist, with the Trollskull Alley write up, features PHB races only.  ((Well, with one exception, but, that's a spoiler <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />))  It's great that we have things like Volo's which give us all these cool races, but, as far as the settings go, they might as well not exist.</blockquote>