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What dnd races are required? (dice.camp)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What dnd races are required?

@dnd

I'm making a new #homebrew #dnd setting. The mistake I felt I made last time was trying to devise an orgin from whole cloth for each playable race, which wasted a TON of time and energy while also confusing my players. So, herein I wish to ask: What playable races would you miss, if you joined my table and noticed their absence?

Humans, dwarves, halflings, orcs, goblinoids, and elves will all stay, but I am not sure about all the others.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

But why have them at all? They don't seem to do anything thematically that dwarves or orcs can't do better

[–] DumbAceDragon 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You could have been helpful and told me what images were there

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Are you a child?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

@DumbAceDragon Counteroffer: I have, at points, offered a player the ability to play as a baby dragon

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It covers the very common case of new players who want to be dragons. You point them at dragonborn and tell them to go to town.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It's really not as busted as it sounds, especially since this is likely a dragon with 1d8 hit points and a 15 in its highest stat

Personally, I think the best way to nerf a Dragon PC is strict timekeeping. Each year they get slightly bigger, each week their claws grow just enough to keep them from permanently silvering their claws, etc

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

All I meant by this is that there is a common fantasy that the dragonborn race option fulfills that is not thematically fulfilled by dwarves and orcs. If you think a different or custom race would fulfill that fantasy better then that's great too.