What dnd races are required?

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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.

  • DumbAceDragon
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    101 year ago

    You are legally required to have dragonborn WITH TAILS. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.

    • Xilabar the Dice GoblinOP
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      1 year ago

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

      • TheOneCurly
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        11 year ago

        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.

        • Xilabar the Dice GoblinOP
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          1 year ago

          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

          • TheOneCurly
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            31 year 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.