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although, if you did make a 'made for 5e' setting, they wouldn't need to keep being that.

i'm not just talking about the hobbits who are intentionally, specifically out of place (but not totally entirely foreign) to greater middle earth, i'm talking about the whole fellowship, men, dwarves and elves included, and so what if the only other dwarf place turns out to be a goblin infested...

i do think maybe more weapons should be feasible to use as casting focii, maybe the wizard can use rogue's knives to cast as 'ritual daggers', maybe halberds, pikes, lances and tridents work as well as quarterstaves for an eldritch knight.

and that is significant about them in the context of middle earth, they are not well known, they are not doers of great deeds, they are humble folk not known or cared about by the likes of sauron, but that is different from them being an unknown sailing onto the continent five minutes before the...

i wonder if they should've made casting focii like, a weapon category(or categorized like weapons are), rather than objects, just to make it clearer how they interact with the rules, something like: Focii NameHands RequiredClasses Proficient wand1sorcerer, warlock, wizard, artificer...

i probably should've replied to this as part of my last post no, it didn't impede your ability to play an elf, but do you not think that it's a shame or a loss, even a little bit, that your elf never got a chance to show an emotion tied to who they are and how they relate distinct to the place...

we want to be able to choose to tangibly be from the place we're adventuring in, to have pre-established ties, dynamics and histories with various factions, organizations and people that will influence our character's choices as they adventure, not everybody wants to be some waif, stray or...

That doesn't justify doing it for new species either or make it better that gnomes and halflings have no deep connections to the setting.

if you mean like the long term influence from your luck on something like your rolled stats i'm going to have to disagree with you on that one, everyone should have the right to at least start out on a level playing field before the dice get a chance to screw them over.

because why make something nice for the martials when you can instead give it to the fullcasters? 🙃

personally, far end max of 40 for the really difficult stuff, make expertise and reliable talent more common especially within the martials, d20(20)+ ability mod(5)+ proficiency(6)+ expertise(6)= 37, then you can fill in that last gap with other magic bonuses and stuff like guidance.

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