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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 5823359" data-attributes="member: 32536">I'd be really annoyed by a PHB that was limited down to the Tolkien races... I don't even like Halflings very much outside of Tolkien's works (well, except for Eberron halflings, they're fine). I don't really want a torrent of half-hearted stuff like tieflings (much rather see playable demons), either, though.There are a ton of great things out there for fantasy races that D&D should tap into. Orcs, Merfolk, Faeries, talking animals, Centaurs, werebeasts, Minotaurs, Dryads, Demons, Angels, Dragons, Giants, and so on... I bet a lot of D&D's racial options would be more popular if they stopped diluting concepts and forcing people to play the half-human version of everything. If you're going to play something that is mostly just a re-flavored human, then you may as well just play a human.Anyways, I think people need to wake up and realize that it is fine for D&D to move past Tolkienesque fantasy. It's 2012 already. We don't need to be slaves to a single view of fantasy that was published 75 years ago. Heck, I grew up reading Chronicles of Narnia and the Dragonriders of Pern. Where are my talking animals and rideable dragons?</blockquote>