Or just play a halfling, gnome, goblin or fairy? 

only irl canon species fr

HUMANS!!!!!

HIP HIP HURRA!!!!!!!!

HIP HIP HURRA!!!!!!!!

HIP HIP HURRA!!!!!!!!

Human variant is the new human -- It gets two origin feats, All other feats were moved to level 4.

You can still be a half elf, or half orc --- you just have to select either elf or human species trait, etc. to make a half-elf, or any other core class. So half-dwarf, half-orc would choose between being human or orc in terms of species traits. You can still describe how that affects you appearance by taking and mixing the appearance descriptions.

Tolkien did the same thing.  Elrond and Elros were both half elves (brothers), when they came of age, they had to decide between being an elf or a human.

Elrond choose to be an elf.

Elros chose to be a human.

They still blended human and elven appearances. Which you do to make the kind of appearance to you want to make.

Humans are good idk

Quote from HailRobonia >>

So you can be a 2-foot tall human? I understand wanting to be inclusive of real life human size variation, but if you can play a little person human, why can't you play a little person elf?

 well duh if they had a short body their long ass legs would back up the difference.

I'm just not happy with being human.  I have done research into other races and as far as I'm concerned, humans are beneath many.  I am seeking a power or spell to be able to change my race, to become more powerful, more adept in mastering the power of fire.  

humans are awesome you get a  origen feat or your choice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Made my first Human Wizard!

I’m tough but fair, defender of earth and the underdog. 

I'm one of the last.

Cool

I was creating a character and now I can’t return to my editor from here

Quote from HailRobonia >>

So you can be a 2-foot tall human? I understand wanting to be inclusive of real life human size variation, but if you can play a little person human, why can't you play a little person elf?

 Because Elves are already short 

You still don't have Build Freedom 

Your telling me it's better for your Ability scores to be tied to your background (and thus imply Farmers can't be intelligent or nobles can't be Durable) than just going w/ the initial Rule of Tashas where you just CHOOSE what you want and your background gave you a Feature that was great for Roleplay as opposed to mechanical.

Plus you still had Build Freedom w/ racial Ability Score Increases 

You weren't Obligated to be a class that benefited from a racial ASI increase, you have stats that you should be rolling b4 choosing your race. 

And at the Very Least Racial Tied ASIs gave you a Sense of The General Culture and values of that Race instead of just "Everyone is basically a human culture because we at Wotc have lost the Capability to be original and figure out what cultural practices these races might have"

Or at the very least they couldve kept Racial ASIs but listed them as "Recommended" or "Suggested" like so many 3rd party sources already do because they know it's better

Quote from Benana6296278 >>

I'm a tiefling, but I often play as a human. Could a human character have, like, purple eyes or whatever?

 I don't see why not

If your human comes from an interspecies family or is magical in any way 

Hello maybe they just have unique genes that give them purple eyes

Quote from Larry613 >>

What the HECK happened to a HUMAN VARIANT???   You're supposed to be able to obtain a FEAT along with +1 to two Ability Scores!  The Initiate of High Sorcery is a BONUS feat!!!!

For that matter, what the heck happened to HALF-ELVES?!   How does Wizards of the Coast explain one of their most famous NPC's, Tanis Half Elven?!   Half Elves have been part of D&D since the very, very beginning!!!  I should know, I got the original boxed set for my Tenth Birthday present in 1975!!!

I know

It's honestly ******* tragic

Now when you play as a Half elf you just look like an Elf w/ human racial Traits or a Human w/ Elven racial Traits, it's complete and Utter bullshit

I'm human. I like dnd

Quote from Darkmoon250 >>

It’s just us real people, but better.

Ditto