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i think you may be seeing this backwards ridcully, they are not being 'reduced' to being a skill monkey, being a skillmonkey is a fundamentally more versatile wheelhouse than being a thief, as well as the fact that in a number of systems where the game isn't focused on dungeoncrawling and facing...

i've mentioned this before but i think it would be worthwhile to them if gnomes were shifted into a more nature spirit-esc 'proto-druid' archetype(like how tieflings are the 'proto-warlock'),

given i believe those kinds of 'i need to be the most powerful person at the table' people are the minority and catering to them IMO runs contrary to making the game enjoyable for most other players that doesn't alter my position.

i do not believe it is a desirable goal to cater to those kinds of people.

i mean i suppose it's like, i don't think that most GMs are flat out not interested in character backstory, but when a player brings a backstory to the table that they've premade, i think there's a tendency to be a little overinvested in a specific manifestation of the pre-prepared ideas, so...

this popped up in my YT feed and felt tangentially related, an interesting 17 minute watch

I agree adventurers should be exceptional, where we may disagree is on what exceptional is being used to mean.

focusing on the wrong things yarrel, the point is they had something that represented both sides of their parentage, they might have done so poorly but they did do so. i don't believe all traits should be turned into cantrips either as you seem to be attempting.

i was only referring to the half elf as an example in that they have notable features derived from both species

i do not think playing any species should require taking an origin feat to do so.

i was thinking more in a sense of the half-elf('14 version because '24 deleted them) way where they get a bit of both worlds mechanically, the dwarven aasimar might end up with dwarven toughness and stonecunning as well as celestial resistance and celestial revelation, rather than just saying...

given those species and similar kinds tend not to specify they're actually limited to human parentage, how many people would rather tieflings and such were actually implemented as more of an applicable template or 'substitute subspecies' than an independent species statblock? so you could end up...

they could at least manage it for all the PHB options which they claim are the 'most common species', that's the point here, no, not every species needs to have a history in the setting but they could at least manage it for the ones they claim are the ones that make up the standard population.

my point was the fighter, mage and thief are all specialists in their own separate areas, not that just the thief was a specialist. it's more an archetype thing IMO, it's an extension of having the 'smart guy' who thinks their way through problems but is often less capable in a fight due to...

Edit: they're doing that because the PHB species are meant to be the 'common' ones, grungs and leonin communities can take a backseat until the baseline options actually have establishment in the setting first what if i want to be from the sword coast? it's difficult because there's no...