It's depressing that a lot of the racial options are locked because of in-universe fantasy racism. Honestly kind of makes me want to skip the game entirely if they maintain that angle, especially with a lot of more modern D&D products moving past it because... make believe racism is really shitty to experience, too.
...honestly if the choice was being stuck with just the demihuman races from the PHB like fifteen goddamn flavors of elves, humans, and three short humans, I'd want to burn the whole setting down too.
Hyperbolic I know, but for gods' sake I'm tired of being the exact same Tolkien rehashes again and again and again.
Looking tough for you seeing that a lot of the story is based on discrimination. Tieflings kicked out of their city so they became refugees; the Druids want them out because the Grove should only be for Druids; goblins and gnolls are bad and so feeble minded they allied with The Absolute; Duergar use Deep Gnomes as slaves; and there are many more examples just in EA.
Honestly, I think is pretty cool to use those topics, they add stakes, dinamics between different groups and I like it.
Personally, I freaking love goblins so I would love to play as one, I really like for example the vibe of Warcraft orcs and goblins, but Larian is doing Baldur's Gate and they have lore to work around.
Now, could they introduce goblin player character that not necessary has to go with the common goblin stereotype, to be an individual with the traits that we choose? Yeah, for sure, but if you want a truthful introduction based in the existing lore the npcs should react quite different to him, adding a ton of work to do properly.
They also have a shit ton of models made for the goblins, so based on that they would be closer to have goblins than dragonborns or half orcs.
I'm gonna say, hopefully we get some "monster" races at least as DLC, but usually when I see people saying that everything is always the same and they are so freaking tired of that... i don't know pal, go write a story that you like, go make that game that you believe so much is lacking in the market, I don't see the reason to shit over someone else's work because it doesn't align with your exact taste and simplify everything as a "Tolkien rehash", is not a smart quote.
