I know we're missing the full list of character classes until full release and I hope the same is true of races and there are some I'm interested in seeing later:
For the two options that most feel weird for being missing: Githzerai and Half-Orc.
Githzerai because they are as much a part of the history of illithids as the Githyanki and it feels weird for them to not be here.
Half-orcs I'd like to see just because it is very weird not to have them as an option in a D&D game.
Two other options which people would see as basic but which I'd expect other people would want to see would be Gnomes and Dragonborn.
For more fringe options there's Genasi and Aasimar just for all the plane-touched ancestries available.
Other interesting options would be Goblin, Hobgoblin, and full Orc. (though this might take some additional dialogue options to address the reactions people would have to such characters.
Dhampir and Reborn might have interesting interactions with Astarion's story, a Hagblood meeting Ethel might be interesting. Shadar-Kai might interact interestingly with the Shar tangent. (current lore is that they serve the Raven Queen but it used to be they were connected to Shar).
The lineage I really feel I most want to play for D&D in general sadly doesn't really have a hook into the story as I've seen it, and that's yuan-ti.
Last edited by Thrythlind; 17/07/21 09:23 PM.