Meet, the “mongrelfolk”, the most racist thing D&D has ever done. Anti-miscagenation propaganda.
However a race of igors that you roll up like a an old style Gamma World Mutant. with a table for each body part would be amazing.
So, heres how to save it:
- Change the name
- Make them the result of a failed attempt to mass produce a race of shapeshifters to act as spies. (one setting I think did this)
They can work very well along warforged as a concept, a living reminder of a terrible war.
I wouldn’t make them a core race only because they deserve a whole book to themselves.
I do think it would be better for the majority of “good” races to as a whole treat them more with pity and condescension rather than the outright hate they show goblins and orcs.
I’d play up they aren’t actually as pitful as everyone thinks they are and they survive by cooperation and the strength of community bonds. And given how children may look nothing like their parents would also lead to interesting social dynamic.
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