"A Crap Guide to D&D [5th Edition] - Races" | Kip Reacts to JoCat 

Baldur's Gate 3 has two types of character interactions: Casual racism and ranked competitive racism

I do not condone racism, HOWEVER, as a narrative tool, it can make compelling stories. Not to mention, it is literally in the lore that most people are not trusting of tieflings. You know, BECAUSE THEY LOOK LIKE DEVILS! Coming from someone whose first character ever was a tiefling, I hope this puts things into perspective.

Humans are still the best race for power building in 5e, because they get a free feat at 1st level.

JoCat did indeed include every race that had come out at the time of the video. And I really applaud this video in particular because at the time this video was originally released, some races had...issues. Kobolds and Orcs for example, were the only races that had any stat penalties (this was later removed). Orcs were actually a big sore point of Volo's Guide because they were almost always worse than Half-Orcs in both overall stats and racial abilities. I know a lot of dms who just straight up allowed players to be Full Orcs lorewise but Half-Orcs mechanically because it was that much of an issue, and it wasn't really fixed until the Eberron book was released. The other sore point of Volo's was that Yuan-Ti Purebloods were considered way too strong and outright banned by numerous tables, because they had "Magic Resistance" as a racial feature, which let them make saving throws against spells with advantage. The books eventually got a bit better at balancing races as they released, but no one really forgot how over the place Volo's Guide was with race balance. I'm just happy JoCat didn't go into the subraces, because then he would have been on elves for like, 3 whole minutes. Seriously. Elves. Got. So. Many. SUBRACES. IN 5E!!!

The reason Tieflings are hated is because 95% or more of the world only knows fiends and fiend-kin as hells spawn who seek to destroy all life on the material plane because that is what they have heard through rumor and bard story. Tieflings are surprisingly rare despite what Baldur's Gate 3 would have you believe. what IS realistic about BG3 is that Tieflings often band together to support each other. So what would you do as an average farmer or peasant, who has most likely never seen magic in person, and has only ever MAYBE heard of the despicable evils of the Hells and its residents through the occasional minstrel or bard passing through town to retell an epic; if what looks EXACTLY as described in the stories walked into your village?

I certainly have had a changeling I played be a sus (in 3.5 though). Was posing as a catfolk rogue until the moment I got infected with rat-lycanthropy. Changelings have the shapeshifter subtype, however, and those cannot be lycanthropes... so I switched back to my baseform... the reaction of the rest of the party was PRICELESS. They really thought I was playing a catfolk until then.

The one tiefling that I have recently played never got hate then again she had a TON of influence in her home kingdom she was a major inventor (prosthetic limbs) and even had to use one herself as she blew her right arm off in an experiment. She owned a very successful company and held military contracts later in the game (she literally sold dwarves 2 crates of revolvers for a boat)

I love tiefling. Fire resistance, free spells, and a killer ascetic? Sign me the heck up

God, I love this one. I especially like the camicat cover of this song.

As someone who has had at least half my characters be tieflings, I can confirm the general npc hates me. Of course, I then retaliate by destroying the world...what. you thought that Great Old One Warlock was just for spell flavor? Misanthropy paired with racism really helps with that 'death of all things' thing.

In defense of the BG3 racism, it is actually a world lore thing related to a couple published adventure modules. Descent into Avernus, which is referenced a lot in game, is where a whole town got dragged into aforementioned Avernus, one of the Hell realms. Several townsfolk got turned into tieflings, some were "made" during the years the town was trapped. When the town finally got returned to the material plane, the remaining human/non-tiefling townsfolk chased out the tieflings, in part because they blamed them for everything (it wasn't actually their fault), but in larger part because they were constant reminders of their trauma.

Although as jocat says, the races don't really matter that much. you can still make it important. i'm never forgetting the story of Krod the half-Orc Rogue who uses intimidation to increase his stealth since only two things see Krod. Dead things and things that know better than to admit it. xD he is also known as the Angry Carpenter xD

Look I'm not a furry ok *BUT* on my first time playing D&D (a 5 part one to boot as well) the DM made us face a dragon and to his detriment said she's the strongest in the land feared by even the Demon king who we had to beat so me being a *DINGUS* rolled to you quest it fuck the dragon and make her my wife (not a monster fucker and furry btw) and by the grace of cosmos i rolled a nat 20 and that's the story of how I'm never allowed to play D&D with my cousin ever again 😂

so as someone who has actually played genasi, earth genasi in fact the answer is pretty simple to why so many play them. Genasi are just human+ yes lore wise they have lots of interesting ways of coming into being but when you play them on they table they pretty much play just like a human with out actually "being" human. want to play a human but not get called basic? want to be human rogue try air genasi, maybe a fighter is what you want cant go wrong as a earth genasi. how about a wizard well fire is right up your alley, or maybe you want a calm cleric well the calming water is for you!!

My favorite character of all time was a 3.5 Tiefling cross classed Paladin / Monk who looked surprisingly close to a cross between Scar and Edward Elric for Fullmetal Alchemist. His personality was pretty heavily defined by being a little fringey for most paladins and the life long goal of finding his arch-demon grandfather … And stabbing him in the face. (You know, typical family drama).

3.5 Humans got no Stat bonuses but a Free feat at level 1 and +1 extra Skill Point per level.

Ah yes, the three races that attract the most hate: Drow, Githyanki, and Tiefling.

Kip: *mentions Pokémon* Elves are literally Jesse and James.

my characters are a red dragon-blooded sorceress with a fascination with fire and a hunger for reading books, a necromancer who's idea of 'survival' is taking control(from the shadows) of the strange city he lives in, a tiefling twilight cleric, and a wood elf barbarian. I guess I like things that don't make a lot of sense. :)

The D&D Races I've played the most so far have been Drow Elf and Warforged. Also played Firbolg, Gnome, Triton, and Tabaxi (which was the first race I played; a Tabaxi Artificer Artillerist). Kobold is next when we play DND after some Pathfinder (where I'll be a Kitsune AKA one of many races you won't find in DND that Pathfinder does have unless one decides to homebrew).

i am now going to have cathulu crab stuck in my head, thank you

Could you imagine being a tiefling druid just to piss off the druids

I play mostly Aasimar or Tiefling paladins, sometimes to change it up a little I’ll go with a Genasi to change it up a bit but I almost always go with one of those three

Most of these new ones are from the online Unearthed Arcana material.

Cami-cat did a cover of this if you want to check it out

While minmaxing is impressive when you consider the right race, it's more amusing to go against the stereotypes to give your character more flavor.

Hey, Kip's got a new avatar. Neat. Given the horns, I'm guessing a demonic deal of sorts?

I like to play a Tiefling Paladin - just to confuse the bigots. Kagha's like "Tieflings are the worst... Oh hello there noble Paladin, would you like to render your fair judgement on this case of a Tiefling child that stole something from me?" 🤣

I'm probably going to get a bit of flack for this but...I think using the term Races instead of Species or Ancestries makes more sense

I'm a changeling bard ......... with a lot of wives.... and even more children. I blame our DM for being a master at karmic retribution for the minor things we do.

Jocat the bard right here.

Time to make my first character be a dumb Bugbear cleric

He's using; PHB, VGM, ERW, GGR, AI, & EEPC.

Ur-flan is the superior race.* Hell Greyhawk in general is best. *No, you the PC can't be an Ur-flan.

It took me way too long to notice he's going in alphabetical order

hey wait a minute.... im kip! how can there be 2... THERES NOT SUPPOSED TO BE 2! do i have a third brother or sumn?! :0

Rules as Written, A changling must be roughly the same height and have the same number of limbs. So being an amogus is impossible.