D&D (2024) Which races would YOU put into the 50th anniversary Players Handbook?
- Thread starter Yaarel
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Vaalingrade
Legend
My question is why do we have to keep Humans.
Lanefan
Victoria Rules
Because most people intrinsically know how to play one?
Vaalingrade
Legend
I have seen 0 proof of this over 4 decades.
Yaarel
🇮🇱 🇺🇦 He-Mage
For my vote.
Give rules for custom race, with suggestions if it is a half race.
• Human
• Elf (astral-ish, teleport, cantrip, proficiencies, spell-per-day)
• Elf (wood-ish, elven accuracy, cantrip, speed, darkvision)
• Tiefling (devil or demon)
• Dragonborn
• Dwarf
• Orc
• Giant (large: earth, cold, lightning-thunder, or fire-radiant)
• Genasi (tough: earth or water)
• Genasi (fly: air or fire)
• Gnome (choose illusion, animal, or technology)
• Awsimar
• Changeling
• Warforged
• Plasmoid
• Tabaxi
• Fairy
• Goblin
• Satyr
• Thri-kreen
• Dhampir
• Aarakocra
Give rules for custom race, with suggestions if it is a half race.
• Human
• Elf (astral-ish, teleport, cantrip, proficiencies, spell-per-day)
• Elf (wood-ish, elven accuracy, cantrip, speed, darkvision)
• Tiefling (devil or demon)
• Dragonborn
• Dwarf
• Orc
• Giant (large: earth, cold, lightning-thunder, or fire-radiant)
• Genasi (tough: earth or water)
• Genasi (fly: air or fire)
• Gnome (choose illusion, animal, or technology)
• Awsimar
• Changeling
• Warforged
• Plasmoid
• Tabaxi
• Fairy
• Goblin
• Satyr
• Thri-kreen
• Dhampir
• Aarakocra
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schneeland
Hero
That, but Gnome gets replaced by Goblin.
Lanefan
Victoria Rules
Human
Elf - Wood, High, Fair, Arctic (sub-species are NOT in my view as separate as the OP would have them)
Dwarf - Hill, Mountain
Hobbit - Agrarian, Maritime (with better sub-species names that that, I hope!)
Part-Elf
Part-Orc
Gnome
Stop there.
And then make those species mean something again! Compare each to Human (the baseline) and adjust their root stats up and-or down to reflect that comparison; give the non-Humans some species-based abilities (night-sight being the most obvious) and penalize them some other way to compensate. Make some species - including Human - naturally trend toward some classes and away from others; maybe even ban a few combinations outright. And so forth...
Elf - Wood, High, Fair, Arctic (sub-species are NOT in my view as separate as the OP would have them)
Dwarf - Hill, Mountain
Hobbit - Agrarian, Maritime (with better sub-species names that that, I hope!)
Part-Elf
Part-Orc
Gnome
Stop there.
And then make those species mean something again! Compare each to Human (the baseline) and adjust their root stats up and-or down to reflect that comparison; give the non-Humans some species-based abilities (night-sight being the most obvious) and penalize them some other way to compensate. Make some species - including Human - naturally trend toward some classes and away from others; maybe even ban a few combinations outright. And so forth...
Sorcerers Apprentice
Hero
Dragonborn, Elf, Gnome, Human.
overgeeked
Open-World Sandbox
Everything from the current PHB plus all the races released prior to Monster of the Multiverse that didn't make the cut.
Kobold Avenger
Legend
Everything in the existing PHB including possibly Dragonborn (sub)races from Fizban's and Tiefling, but no Tiefling subraces, just have one Tiefling race that's more customizable (see Aasimar as a example). And then add Aasimar, Orc, Goblin, Hobgoblin and Bugbear.
