the buildbase and economics seems solid, like the design. the combat seems quick, and the emphasis of how long should an exploration be is good becuse most rpg players after 5e are oblivious to dungeon exploration and timing. i will dm it on monday, see you then.
Any beast race will have the 'furfag stigma', period. If you have a good idea for a character then use it - I wonder how many good Tabaxi characters were shot down because of people afraid of being called furries. If you are amongst friends then I see no issue, as long as it is easy to insert the race in the world.
I played a one-shot a long time ago where everyone needed to be a dragonborn loyal to their empire. To avoid copying my friends making paladins and warriors, I made a weird salamander-like dragonborn rogue. The guy was clearly batshit crazy, but a very effective infiltrator and spy. We had a good time and I stored the sheet to use again someday, I liked how the caracter turned out. I used to think like you, 'they're just weak dragon spawn', but a little imagination and a good backstory can make wonders from a seemingly generic staple.
This is a race I always wanted to play, but never found a campaign where it's easy to insert - minotaurs are usually the big bad savages of the games I played. I would make some kind of 'chosen one' from a tribe, searching for a magical item that will save his tribe from some kind of looming danger. Simple, yes, but open enough to play as any non-human race, and easy to plop in any conventional fantasy setting.
In my 4e dark sun a player of mine played a minataur who was hailing the spirits and weeping for mother nature. Druidic minataur types fit well in dark sun
Do you enjoy studying bronze age infrastructure? Do you want to learn about roman tax returns? Does your dick get hard on the thought of making domestic political decisions in an ancient world? If yes then you're autistic and perfect for ACKS.
My favorite 5e character was a Hexblood (minotaur) warlock of the archfey. The backstory is kinda complex, but basically he was adopted by 2 gay Eladrin lords out of their court wizard's minotaur eugenics pet project. They groomed him to be an adventurer and keep their eyes on the prime material plane, but he was everything that a normal minotaur isn't. Skittish, soft spoken, gullible and always rambling on about what his dads would think of things.
all fey is gay and/or rapist therefor just eladrin is fine.
> Tabaxi
Why gnome in particular? I know I banned gnome illusionist/thief specifically, after having made insanely broken builds in other people's campaigns using it and deciding I didn't want to allow it in my own (one of the GMs was mad at me enough to ban me and only forgave me after a year or so). In a non hack-and-slash setting, the combo of stealth mechanics plus illusion magic could be massively exploited.
I'm open to any race but the Krynn ones, since all of them are terrible in their own ways, and I just plain dislike them.
I get all those others, but why barbarian in particular? I always thought every party needed at least one of those dudes, and nobody wanted to play one. So I'd always have a barbarian type NPC, typical sword-wielding murder asshole. And when one of the other idiot classes got killed, you can sit out or a while, or take over this NPC.
Personally, I'm just racist against the dysgenic midget fucks. Same goes for halflings, and infinitely more so for kender. All my niggas hate kender.
Simple: people often underestimate just how much trouble a low INT chaotic stupid barb can cause for a party if in the hands of a shitty player. Aggro'ed early fights that may be funny for me but causing player bitching when it fucks them, causing them to get thrown out of safe ports and towns by playing up being a retard to cause trouble, and sometimes just being used to fuck over stories due to not wanting to be "railroaded".
I once played a Tabaxi Hexblade Warlock for a few months before it met an untimely demise. The premise was that it was a native of Kartakass in the Domains of Dread and struck a deal with one of the Dark Powers (its patron) in exchange for power and a way out of the Ravenloft setting with a catch: he had to hunt down creatures/individuals and use his available forms of banishment spells to send them to his patron. Mechanically fun, plotwise he had hooks, and Tabaxi are 0% furbait in our group since we're all cat owners and have no desire to fuck our pets.
I personally am a fan of the Golarion goblin design if only because it isn't another semitic small guy. I also like their being essentially the clowns of Pathfinder where they're often evil and an easy early mark but when you encounter them they tend to have a "good idea" for a weapon or tactic usually involving fire. It's very basic and dumb but that's somehow charming. And the whole bit about being autisticly illiterate because of superstition.