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

[JEB]

Human, hobgoblin, warforged. It's easy to explain warforged (fantasy robot), but I dunno why I like hobgoblins. I just do. (It's not for their 5E mechanics, though.)

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

As I said in the other thread, mine have always been and always will be Gnomes, Warforged, and Lizardfolk. Fourth place would be Changelings, and Fifth place would probably be Reborn. Once the Autognome officially comes out, the Lizardfolk might lose its seat at 3rd place.

 

[cole1312]

Half-Elf (specifically half-drow)
Tiefling
Lizardfolk

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

I definitely think 31 different racial cultures in a single setting is way too many. I generally combine similar races into one larger group, with different racial features just being different types within the larger culture. Like dragonborn and lizardfolk are part of a larger "reptile" culture, or tabaxi and leonin.

Or I simply downplay racial cultures entirely and focus on other social divisions; in my Ravnica game, for example, guild was much more important than race.

IMO, it's fine to include a ton of different races into one world, so long as most of them are separated by great distances or planes of existence. For example, my world has probably 20 something races in it, but the majority of them aren't on the Material Plane. Satyrs, Centaurs, Fairies, Firbolg, and Hexblood in the Feywild, Dhampir, Reborn, Kenku, and Shadar-Kai in the Shadowfell, Genasi, Aarakocra, and Goliaths in the Elemental Planes, and so on. So long as there isn't 30+ different races lumped into one city, it's not really a problem.

 

[Bolares]

I have been continually shocked that there hasn't been an official dog-person race in a D&D book. People love dogs!

Well, Shifters kind of come close...

 

[Bolares]

So long as there isn't 30+ different races lumped into one city, it's not really a problem.

And even if they are, you can make abig city a hub for creatures from everywhere. Something like a Sigil/Mos Esley Cantina/Sharn.

 

[TwoSix]

Warforged and Changelings are beating out some PHB races like Dragonborn, Half-Orcs, and Tieflings.

 

[Bolares]

Warforged and Changelings are beating out some PHB races like Dragonborn, Half-Orcs, and Tieflings.

 

[ko6ux]

3 dwarves would make 1 1/2 votes!

Nobody. Undercounts. A. Dwarf.

 

[Undrave]

If I was doing a homebrew setting for my game, I'd let the players make their characters first, and then decide what cultures and races I'd put in my world.

Best way to do it, really.

You know, I could see Tallfellow being a nickname halflings, dwarves, elves, and gnomes use for humans.

I'm a big fan of the 'Twiceling' used by the halflings in the webcomic 'Rusty & co'.