D&D 5E why has none of the wisdom races caught on?

[Vaalingrade]

I love that the one iconic plant people we can come up with isn't a plant.

 

[Mecheon]

See, I was about to say Leshays from Pathfinder are a semi-iconic plant people

Buuuut aren't they constructs?

 

[Tonguez]

See, I was about to say Leshays from Pathfinder are a semi-iconic plant people

Buuuut aren't they constructs?

They're Plant type but yeah created when a druid channels a nature spirit into a specially grown plant-body (apparently they're the spirits that answer when a druid ''communes with nature")

 

[Tonguez]

There wasnt much it was just some sort of nature spirit, I thought they could live in the clouds as a spirit/vapour but could distill themselves into a physical body and come down to the surface

In one of my settings Elves (Sidhe) exist as a disembodied mist, however they want to drain the 'memory' (wisdom) of living mortals from which they then construct physical bodies, their victims being absorbed into the mist where they will eventually fade into oblivion (unless they manage to break free).

Beware the mist...

 

[Mind of tempest]

They're Plant type but yeah created when a druid channels a nature spirit into a specially grown plant-body (apparently they're the spirits that answer when a druid ''communes with nature")

what is it with things being fae lately?

 

[Mecheon]

what is it with things being fae lately?

Fey's back in vogue, after D&D ignoring it for years

So the stuff in its history that probably should have been Fey at the time is moved over when retouched

 

[Mind of tempest]

Fey's back in vogue, after D&D ignoring it for years

So the stuff in its history that probably should have been Fey at the time is moved over when retouched

that does remind me how plant folk normally pick up the elf role what with elfs being feyish.

Does anyone know why they are popular again?

 

[Vaalingrade]

that does remind me how plant folk normally pick up the elf role what with elfs being feyish.

Does anyone know why they are popular again?

Cottage core weird is back in the form of stuff like Beyond the Garden Wall, which has bought the spooky in the woods back rather than the denizens of hell or space.

 

[Mind of tempest]

Cottage core weird is back in the form of stuff like Beyond the Garden Wall, which has bought the spooky in the woods back rather than the denizens of hell or space.

that would also explain the love of halfling what with their Cottage core sensibilities.

I have been one for the old fairies as foes they always lacked something that made them interesting one of sure but they lack a decent villain faction.

you got an idea of what a culture of dnd clerics and/or monks would be like?