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<blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 8565780" data-attributes="member: 1165">Of these two races, tieflings had been popular since Planescape too so they weren't &quot;new&quot;. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Same with drow, which weren't an option in the 4e PH1 but are a subrace option in 5e. I think dragonborn were the only totally new core race but even they were vaguely based on some similar races (most notably the half-dragon, which was cool but not remotely balanced for PC use).I think adding a large race in 3e would have been &quot;easier&quot; since 3e already had a full set of rules for being larger or smaller. (It bothered me that halflings didn't really get advantages or disadvantages for being small in 4e and 5e.)Of course, being Large gave a lot of big (no pun intended) benefits, so while 3e had the rules to handle this, there would be serious balance problems.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="(Psi)SeveredHead, post: 8565780, member: 1165"] Of these two races, tieflings had been popular since Planescape too so they weren't "new". :) Same with drow, which weren't an option in the 4e PH1 but are a subrace option in 5e. I think dragonborn were the only totally new core race but even they were vaguely based on some similar races (most notably the half-dragon, which was cool but not remotely balanced for PC use). I think adding a large race in 3e would have been "easier" since 3e already had a full set of rules for being larger or smaller. (It bothered me that halflings didn't really get advantages or disadvantages for being small in 4e and 5e.) Of course, being Large gave a lot of big (no pun intended) benefits, so while 3e had the rules to handle this, there would be serious balance problems. [/QUOTE]

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