So this Unearthed Arcana 5e that seems to be happening, is there more to it than just creating new humanoid races?
Was just reading the latest playtest release:
https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/unearthedarcana/folk_feywildIs there some specific world that is being developed to house all these variations? Yay, a rabbit, hobgoblin option and other wildlife assortments. Whoopee. Why not just make set rules for converting the MM creatures for player character use and be done with it? My dream of playing an Ochre Jelly will be finally fulfilled. Is every 'naughty' humanoid creature in the game eventually going to get a 'just misunderstood' variant?
Is there some inherent desire from the player base for all these character race options? I'm just not hanging with the right RPG crowds I guess. The days of a DM being able to roughly memorize what the player races are capable of seem pretty impossible now.
Maybe some interesting rule changes are coming but if Tasha's is any indication, I'll just stick with the 3 original books as I'm not seeing anything really groundbreaking happening here, which is kind of sad for what is arguably the most influential RPG system on the market. Meh.
Seems after the 5e core, they started to run out of steam and are just releasing whatever now.
C'mon WOTC, let's see something really new and exciting, rather than throwing stats on the cutesy animal of the month please?