The Ardlings wouldn't be so bad if 1) WoTC found a better name for them, 2) they are the descendants of the Guardinals, and 3) they are an Aasimar variant. Btw, why are the Aasimar in 5e officially tied to just the angels? There are other kinds of Celestials in 5e too.I'm not liking the animal headed things in the new playtest.
Kender are fine... players ruined them, as noted below.Kender.
Gully Dwarves were a poorly thought out idea of making a mongoloid version of dwarf. They were stupid and cowardly, being only useful as slaves. They had overall minimal impact on the story, appearing only in the first novel, but one of them has an important impact on one of the primary characters.Interesting that Dragonlance itself is so popular, yet two of its best-known races are so unpopular. I can only assume the story must have been really good, cause people clearly don’t like it for the races.
Umm…?!Gully Dwarves were a poorly thought out idea of making a mongoloid version of dwarf. They were stupid and cowardly, being only useful as slaves.
Gully Dwarves were a poorly thought out idea of making a mongoloid version of dwarf. They were stupid and cowardly, being only useful as slaves.
Yes, I believe it was in 2019 (I could be wrong...) that this was "officially" refuted in the genetic distinctions between the "main 3 races".so benefit of doubt and all but just noting that mongoloid is an obsolete term and offensive in many ways, so use of it is best avoided.
It’s been scientific consensus for a lot longer that there’s no meaningful genetic distinction between racial groups. There is in fact more genetic diversity within racial groups than there is between them. The whole “three/four main races” idea is nothing but scientific racism.Yes, I believe it was in 2019 (I could be wrong...) that this was "officially" refuted in the genetic distinctions between the "main 3 races".
Many people are still not aware of this IME.
Yes, I believe it was in 2019 (I could be wrong...) that this was "officially" refuted in the genetic distinctions between the "main 3 races".
Raptorians are bad, but I'd also like to do a callout for Jerren. One of the two races from the Book of Vile Darkness, they're just evil halflings. Which apparently makes them their own stand-alone thing
The Vashar at least had a neat idea of a story behind them, even if everything past their origin was dumb (especially due to their stats being "Humans except you can only pick EVIL feats")
Calling something that came from the BoVD or BoED the worst is like shooting fish in a barrel though. They're the worst two books in the official publication history. And I'm including the book with a class that literally got worse at using its abilities as it levels until it couldn't. Because at least Incarnum was a good idea.Raptorians are bad, but I'd also like to do a callout for Jerren. One of the two races from the Book of Vile Darkness, they're just evil halflings. Which apparently makes them their own stand-alone thing
The Vashar at least had a neat idea of a story behind them, even if everything past their origin was dumb (especially due to their stats being "Humans except you can only pick EVIL feats")
I will defend BoED for exactly one thing: It knew what it had to do race wise, hence why it gave the Baurier as an 'actually intended to be playable', along with giving a whole heap of Archons, Eladrin and Guardinals stuff.Calling something that came from the BoVD or BoED the worst is like shooting fish in a barrel though. They're the worst two books in the official publication history. And I'm including the book with a class that literally got worse at using its abilities as it levels until it couldn't. Because at least Incarnum was a good idea.