D&D (2024) Which races would YOU put into the 50th anniversary Players Handbook?

[Yaarel]

No subraces - with the removal of cultural elements from race descriptions the races are very thin, removing any need for them.

The removal of ability score improvements plus the addition of background feats, obsoletes the subraces.

Still the elf does better with two saliently different races:

• elf (astral-ish, teleport, spell-per-day, proficiency swaps, any cantrip)
• elf (wood-ish, elven accuracy, darkvision, speed, any cantrip)

The astral-ish elf covers: astral, eladrin, aevendrow, lorendrow, shadar-kai, pale.

The wood-ish elf covers: wood, high, udadrow, grugach, 3e wild, sea elf (waterbreating cantrip), athas.

 

[Warpiglet-7]

Oh cmon it would be glorious! WOTC has catered to grogs yet again!

Yeah so blarg my fighter looks for any stray cats in the village. He ran out of rations a day ago and wants to stock up.

Younger players stare in abject disgust.

What man?! I am just playing my character!

 

[Mezuka]

• Humans +
• Werebats
• Werebears
• Wereboars
• Wererats
• Weretigers
• Werewolves

 

[RoughCoronet0]

So I’m choose these races/species under the assumption that they will not be reprinting any races released post Tasha’s. I’m also not going to include Custom Lineage, though I wouldn’t be surprised if this option is included in some way.

1. Human
2. Half-Elf
3. Half-Orc
4. Dark Elves (Drow)
5. High Elves
6. Wood Elves
7. Mountain Dwarves
8. Hill Dwarves
9. Forest Gnomes
10. Rock Gnomes
11. Ghostwise Halflings
12. Lightfoot Halflings
13. Stout Halflings
14. Standard Dragonborn
15. Tiefling
16. Warforged

 

[Vaalingrade]

Oh cmon it would be glorious! WOTC has catered to grogs yet again!

Melmakian Barbarian in a party of Tabaxi.

 

[cbwjm]

Whatever Alf is.

Melmacian?

 

[Minigiant]

1. Human
2. Dragonborn
3. Dwarf
4. Elf
5. Gnome
6. Gnomeling
7. Goblin
8. Golemites
9. Goliath
10. Halfling
11. Half-Dwarf
12. Half-Elf
13. Half-Orc
14. Hobgoblin
15. Lizardfolk
16. Leonin
17. Orc
18. Tabaxi
19. Tiefling
20. Warforged

 

[DarkCrisis]

Human
Elf
Half-Elf
Dwarf
Halfling
Gnome


That’s it.

 

[DND_Reborn]

Human

Dwarf (no subraces)
Elf (no subraces)
Halfling (no subraces)

Half-Orc
Gnome (no subraces)
Half-Elf

Maybe...

Centaur
Firbolg
Goliath

And that's pretty much it.

 

[Reynard]

• Humans +
• Werebats
• Werebears
• Wereboars
• Wererats
• Weretigers
• Werewolves

In one random 2E campaign I decided each were-thing was associated with a specific race. Only elves could be were-tigers or whatever.