Would you be willing to play in a campaign setting with none of the core races?

[Aeolius]

The idea of the post was to see how people would like to play with fresh Core races, that is not monster varients in the MM, or others.

I might be less inclined to try a campaign with only new core races, instead of allowing monster variants from the existing books. That's what Unearthed Arcana is all about. A mix of new races with existing monster variants would be ideal. Consider the makeup of my current party: a tiefling mermaid, an oceanid (daughter of a salt hag and triton), a fine damselfish hivemind (swarm, aquatic), an altered human (pseudonatural fish hag grafts), a half-dragon/half-fiend (half-topaz using succubus levels in SS), a triton prince, a half-elemental sea elf, and a sea elf with seawolf lycanthropy.

 

[Ottergame]

I might be less inclined to try a campaign with only new core races, instead of allowing monster variants from the existing books. That's what Unearthed Arcana is all about. A mix of new races with existing monster variants would be ideal. Consider the makeup of my current party: a tiefling mermaid, an oceanid (daughter of a salt hag and triton), a fine damselfish hivemind (swarm, aquatic), an altered human (pseudonatural fish hag grafts), a half-dragon/half-fiend (half-topaz using succubus levels in SS), a triton prince, a half-elemental sea elf, and a sea elf with seawolf lycanthropy.

Wow, that sounds like something I would avoid with a 10 foot pole.

 

[Dark Jezter]

Humans create the baseline of reference for me. Also, after the complete book of elves (sorry for the potshot) and the impression of demihumans being (typically) statistically superior to humans, I've become something of a human supremacist .

I agree with you there. The CBoE portrayed elves as being pretty much perfect in every way. If you go by the CBoE, then elves make the deadliest warriors, the most powerful mages, and the stealthiest thieves. Elf armor and weapons are superior to everybody else's gear, elf cities are utopian paradises, and elf music and poetry are quite simply the best there is. After reading the first few chapters in the CBoE, I found myself rolling my eyes and groaning after every page. And I haven't even mentioned the completely unbalanced class kits and combat techniques available only to elves.

To be fair, though, the other 2e Complete books about the races weren't nearly as bad. The Complete Book of Dwarves and The Complete Book of Gnomes & Halflings managed to discuss their respective races without making them out to be demigods.