D&D (2024) What PHB races should have darkvision?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

They’re just not very thematically cogent and feel like a poor choice for the PHB to me. If they wanted an upper-planes counterpart to Tieflings in the PHB I would rather they have gone with Asimar. If they wanted a generic anthropomorphic animal race in the PHB I would rather they not have tied them to the upper planes. Both are fine concepts but I don’t think they mesh well.

I'd rather they included Aasimar in the 2024 PHB and just expanded their descriptions to let them have guardinal-style animalian features. I don't know what they're doing that they couldn't already be doing with the Aasimar. (And as the saga of the eladrins and shadar-kai over the editions show, WotC is comfortable expanding and contracting what each species looks like and can do, as needed.)

 

[CubicsRube]

That would make everyone use torches and lanterns (which I view as a good outcome) and also be wildly evocative. (What if dragonborn could also smell gold?)

But yeah, I think there's basically zero chance WotC would go for this.

Yeah that would be the goal. Only monsters get darkvision, so the PCs are at a disadvantage going into monster lairs.

But yes, unless i houserule and do a bunch of testing, i'll never see it.

EDIT: and dragonborn smelling gold would be super cool!

 

[aco175]

I did not see a none of them vote, so I could not vote.

 

[Charlaquin]

I'd rather they included Aasimar in the 2024 PHB and just expanded their descriptions to let them have guardinal-style animalian features. I don't know what they're doing that they couldn't already be doing with the Aasimar. (And as the saga of the eladrins and shadar-kai over the editions show, WotC is comfortable expanding and contracting what each species looks like and can do, as needed.)

Yeah, that would have been fine with me too. Especially when Ardlings’ main thing is manifesting spectral wings, which is already Asimars’ thing and has no thematic connection to them being animal people.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I did not see a none of them vote, so I could not vote.

Did you try casting a vote without clicking any of the boxes? I thought the tech allowed you to do that.

 

[aco175]

Did you try casting a vote without clicking any of the boxes? I thought the tech allowed you to do that.

It told me I had to pick at least one.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It told me I had to pick at least one.

Added an option.

 

[Bill Zebub]

I really wish there were a lesser version that didn't work in absolute darkness. The ability to see in total, pitch darkness should be limited to very, very few races.

 

[jmartkdr2]

Dwarf and drow but not other elves. Elves get low-light vision.

Dragonborn get low-light and blindsight with a feat.

 

[RuinousPowers]

Personally, I find the idea that races with darkvision wouldn't use light sources in their lairs to be dumb, but I voted for dwarves, orcs, and Tieflings.