[quote=@Regitnui]
[@Iuniper] There's the standard D&D races, which in the current edition are:

[list]
[*] Aaracokra
[*] Aasimar
[*] Bugbear
[*] Dragonborn
[*] Dwarf
[*] Elf
[*] Firbolg
[*] Genasi
[*] Gnome
[*] Goblin
[*] Goliath
[*] Halfling
[*] Half-elf
[*] Half-orc
[*] Hobgoblin
[*] Human
[*] Kenku
[*] Kobold
[*] Lizardfolk
[*] Orc
[*] Tabaxi
[*] Triton
[*] Tiefling
[*] Yuan-ti
[/list]

And that's if you don't include the third-party source material which adds merfolk and vampires just as a start. Some of the others sound like what furries use to describe various biological abominations resulting from cramming human anatomy into an animal's physiology. :Joke

Also, play the Elder Scrolls games Morrowind or Skyrim.
[/quote]

Wow I obviously didn't read the entire 5e manual. I'll check some of those out. Maybe I'll just be a bear. 

The Elder Scrolls games are what I'd call "first-person adventure simulator" games, not RPGs unfortunately.