Always looking for another player or two for my online sessions. DMs open if you wanna chat more.

I am! Running a Ghosts of Saltmarsh campaign and a Homebrew campaign using a 3rd party setting book.

Neat. I made a Drow once but the campaign quickly fell apart so didn't really get anywhere sadly.

I've been mostly DM'ing recently.

They are super popular, I personally don't find them all that interesting compared to other races/species- but that could be due to my lack of 'old D&D' knowledge.
I am more partial to Drow and Orcs due to the whole built-in duality of fighting their 'evil tendencies' or cultures thrust onto them.

Good lol

Sure most of them COULD just be reflavored spells that use physical stats and 'martial actions' to perform unique abilities

Like imagine instead of "counter spell" you can "counter projectiles" and shoot your opponents arrows out of the air, or perform a proper parry attack etc

It just makes sense

I'm not talking single class or subclass feature either that let you cast a spell or do ONE unique thing x ammount of times a day.

I'm talking an entire "spell list" worth of physical actions and martial techniques that can do anything from knocking several enemies prone to granting advantage.

Like consider the artificer in D&D, it uses magic but half of the time is encouraged to treat or imagine the spells as merely the results of mechanisms and trinkets.

Why not give fighters or barbarians "martial techniques" that perform both combat and utility functions? 🧵

Either way you can treat them as clearly separate and distinct from "classic" Goblins as you please, while also (and more importantly) justifying the existence of 'attractive' Goblins.