Dungeons and Dragons

11008 readers

5 users here now

A community for discussion of all things Dungeons and Dragons! This is the catch all community for anything relating to Dungeons and Dragons, though we encourage you to see out our Networked Communities listed below!

/c/DnD Network Communities

Other DnD and related Communities to follow*

DnD/RPG Podcasts

*Please Follow the rules of these individual communities, not all of them are strictly DnD related, but may be of interest to DnD Fans

Rules (Subject to Change)

Be a Decent Human Being
Credit OC content (self or otherwise)
Posting news articles: include the source name and exact title from article

Format: [Source Name] Article Title

Posts must have something to do with Dungeons and Dragons
No Piracy, this includes links to torrent sites, hosted content, streaming content, etc. Please see this post for details
Zero tolerance for Racism/Sexism/Ableism/etc.
No NSFW content
Abide by the rules of lemmy.world

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world

owenfromcanada@lemmy.world

What dnd races are required? (dice.camp)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Shkshkshk@dice.camp to c/dnd@lemmy.world

36 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Shkshkshk@dice.camp 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You'd be surprised how many people don't ever think about what they like, and because they don't do self-reflection they can't tell me what they like. It's really common in nerds for some reason.

[+] Knitwear@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

[deleted]

[–] Shkshkshk@dice.camp 1 points 10 months ago

🤷‍♂️I only have like three people I could currently recruit, since I only have 2 irl friends plus my fiancée. Considering that in my experience about a quarter of the people I recruit don't show up regularly and another quarter stop coming after a bit, I would prefer to recruit another 6-8 people so I can have six players.

Basically, I'm doing market research. I want my game to be minimally aggravating for my players. Right now I'm specifically focusing on one detail that I dont really get.

[–] Shkshkshk@dice.camp 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But I do agree that after I have players I should implement what they like. A mistake I made last time is that I spent a year and a half going wild with my worldbuilding, filling in every single nook and cranny that normally the players would co-create with me.

[–] Shkshkshk@dice.camp 1 points 10 months ago

I'm thinking about having my pantheon be about that, sort of how in the #Silmarillon the original sin was "a talented prick made the coolest thing, but decided no one else deserved to work with them and got obsessed with protecting their intellectual property".

Melkor got pissed that he had to compromise his vision with the other Valar when making Arda, Feanor got waay too proud of his Silmarils, Sauron got litigious about his ring-lore IP, and so on. It's a really good message for a #ttrpg