D&D 5E What are your (up to 3) favorite character races? - Wizards Survey Duplication

[JEB]

There is just no way that WotC is going to present a major setting (as opposed to a sort of one book once off like Theros) with any support that doesn't include all the main races and classes. Gone are the days where picking up a given setting meant that you had to put 3/4 of your gaming collection on the shelf because you couldn't use it in that setting.

Like it or not, moving forward, settings are going to include all the major races, certainly all the PHB races, in some form or other - like replacing Dray with Dragonborn a la 4e Dark Sun.

Eh. We don't have nearly enough information yet to make that assumption.

Excluding SCAG (the Realms is default 5E, no matter what they say) and Ravenloft (expanding on a Realms-compatible 5E adventure), we have two one-off setting books which use all the core races (Eberron and Wildemount) and two one-off setting books that explicitly do not (Ravnica and Theros). Note also that neither Eberron nor Wildemount are settings that would be expected to limit race options; it would have been surprising if they had, in fact. One might also wonder if Ravnica and Theros were testing the response to a limited race selection. (I don't recall seeing anyone upset by it, but it may have happened.)

Most notably, none of these are settings that historically had limited race options, but are now open to all the 5E things. That situation simply hasn't happened yet. Until it does, we can only guess, but we can't assume anything. However, I'm pretty sure we'll find out the answer next year...

 

[Redwizard007]

Y'all some Triton hating s.o.b.s

Gith, Triton, Half-orc

 

[Mind of tempest]

Y'all some Triton hating s.o.b.s

Gith, Triton, Half-orc

I think it is more no one ever really did anything with tritons

 

[Hussar]

The problem with tritons is you have to run an underwater campaign, and D&D doesn't really do that very well.

 

[Mind of tempest]

The problem with tritons is you have to run an underwater campaign, and D&D doesn't really do that very well.

we need an underwater setting or adventure?

 

[Aldarc]

we need an underwater setting or adventure?

Even one focused on sailing and island-hopping would suffice.

 

[Mind of tempest]

Even one focused on sailing and island-hopping would suffice.

that was the greek setting from magic it also had triton come to think of it.

 

[Hussar]

Eh. We don't have nearly enough information yet to make that assumption.

Excluding SCAG (the Realms is default 5E, no matter what they say) and Ravenloft (expanding on a Realms-compatible 5E adventure), we have two one-off setting books which use all the core races (Eberron and Wildemount) and two one-off setting books that explicitly do not (Ravnica and Theros). Note also that neither Eberron nor Wildemount are settings that would be expected to limit race options; it would have been surprising if they had, in fact. One might also wonder if Ravnica and Theros were testing the response to a limited race selection. (I don't recall seeing anyone upset by it, but it may have happened.)

Most notably, none of these are settings that historically had limited race options, but are now open to all the 5E things. That situation simply hasn't happened yet. Until it does, we can only guess, but we can't assume anything. However, I'm pretty sure we'll find out the answer next year...

Well, I base this more on the fact that WotC hasn't really done a limited race palette setting, like, ever. We haven't really had a limited palette setting since 2e. And, really, the only reason we might get them now is bringing those older settings forward.

And, even then, I can pretty much guarantee that they will get the same treatment as every other setting - expanded race options so that the PHB, at the very least, is covered. I mean, they added tieflings and dragonborn to Greyhawk, so, I can't imagine that they will suddenly come forward with a major setting that doesn't cover all the bases.

 

[Vaalingrade]

we need an underwater setting or adventure?

Let's start with underwater mechanics that are actually fun instead of cartoonishly punitive first.

 

[Bolares]

we need an underwater setting or adventure?

I feel like call of the netherdeep will have a underwater portion.