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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...

there's a large gap between unique and universal

yes it's a trope, but my point was more in people using the 'adventurer misfit' mindset to justify throwing reason to the wind and creating whatever without trying for a deeper reason than 'they're an adventurer, they can thus be as weird as i like', movies and other structured media at least...

yeah, rereading the OP it sounds more like their issue arises when the characters seem to lack connection to the world and civilization they exist in, when the entire party seems to of originated from 'over the horizon'

honestly, the 'they're adventurer's, they're already oddballs by the fact they choose to walk into life-threatening danger every day as their dayjob, and this justifies their license to be the most statistically bizarre collection of individuals possible' line of thinking rubs me the wrong way...

if you have an issue with circus troupe parties, how much better do you find it when the troupe is an accurate sample of the setting's populations? like, if the world is filled with harengon, firbolgs, genasi, autognomes and centaurs as the majority of population, does that take the edge off the...