What dnd races are required?
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.
Not what you’re asking, but relevant: I’ve mostly played in homebrew worlds and exclusively DMd homebrew, and what ive found is actually having the different races have some representation means more than their historical heritage in the world. If it comes up, maybe in prep detail it out a little. If there’s only one Tabaxi in the world, it’s origin is more suspicious (needs explanation) than if players encounter them occasionally.
Wanting my players to be open to trying less common races I recently made a d100 including every race I could find so that the NPCs can be anything instead of whatever pops in my head in a rush to describe the shopkeep.
You are legally required to have dragonborn WITH TAILS. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.
But why have them at all? They don’t seem to do anything thematically that dwarves or orcs can’t do better
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.
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
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.
I would suggest getting rid of either Dragonborn or Tabaxi, since they are just there to give furries something to play as
but I’m a #furry
Well, then your opinion doesn’t matter. Delete the furries.
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Well, at least delete the kobolds. If there’s anything worse than a furry, it’s a furry that’s also a bottom.
I actually have some opinions on the kobold. For one, they will be furry little doggos, not lizards. They will be little clever bois. Clever little smol beans.
As if that makes it better.
Why shouldn’t furries have something to play as?
As stated elsewhere: Delete the furries.
