i wouldnt relay be holding my breath about anyhting that isnt in BG 1 and 2.
This is larian so we might get soem more variety, but i think anyhitng not in PHB is a definitive out.
You might have a point about Goliath, i mostly play 4E so i forgot that Goliaths arent a core race (which thy also werent in 4E but they got added with th esame book as Half orcs were so they might aswell be)
as for Goblins, goblins are, funly enaugh, not very iconic in DnD, they are in many other fantasy settigns such as Warcraft or the DnD spinoff pathfinder, but in DnD Goblins generaly are always a bit underwhelming, with the spot they take in other settings usualyl beeing reserved for Kobolds.
Lizardfolk are probably gonna be there, but im expecting them to work like they did in NWN2, theyll likeley have a different skeleton from the player races, they are a classic low level enemy so theyll use thos emodels.

Yuan ti pureblood are a player race but also regarded to be vastly overpowered and while they were in Storm of Zehir, they are the least "Player friendly" of the races , since their morality is realy weird to non existant.

Of all the non PHB races i can maybe see Goliaths and Firbolg (the latter because they appear to be oddly popular) beeing in.
Of the more monsterous races i think Lizardfolk and Kobolds have the biggest shot, Lizardfolk because they and dragonborn are essentialy itnerchangeable for most people and the latter have non godawful stats, Kobolds because they, again, are oddly popular with furries.

I wouldnt count on Gith, They are connected to mindflayers but i personally think Gith are a poor choice for low level campaigns.
If your character starts at level 1 and its not planescape or spelljammer, chacnes are youre not playing a gith

as for dragonborn: ive like to point out that its been two editions since these guys were made a core race an so far theyve never appeared in a DnD based vidoe game at release (not counting the facebook one) and the only two games that had them at all were the MMOs that added em years later with a hefty price tag

I absoluteley expect tieflings to be in, theyve been a staple ever since NWN1 and i wouldnt be surprised abotu Drow since they are a core race now and a staple of edgelords in almost every campaign featuring edgelrods

Last edited by Sordak; 21/11/19 09:18 AM.