Slightly tangentially, it is interesting to compare and contrast the way that AD&D/D&D illustrators have depicted the different races over different editions.

Here, for example, is the AD&D 1e illustration, showing that you could play any race so long as they looked like they had suffered a terrible accident with acid.

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Here are those same races, plus their new friends, by the time we saw 3e.

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(I'm sure I once dated that female half-orc).


Last edited by Sadurian; 24/10/20 02:28 PM.