Another probably basic question...

[Pazu]

I was originally going to post this in the "underpowered half-elves" thread, but it seemed like that thread drifted a bit...

Anyway: Having recently read Races of the Wild, I noticed that there were a few feats that had "Elf" listed as a prerequisite. My question is, does the half-elf's "Elven blood" racial ability allow him/her access to such feats? (The text of the "Elven blood" ability seems a bit unclear.)

Thanks again,
Pazu

 

[JimAde]

As far as I know, yes.

For all effects related to race, a half-elf is considered an elf.

That seems pretty clear-cut to me.

 

[atom crash]

Yes, I agree. "Elven blood" satisfies the "elf" racial requirement.

 

[Jdvn1]

(The text of the "Elven blood" ability seems a bit unclear.)

Gah, I hate the "<Racial> blood" abilities. They're so vague. I don't know of anything that specifically use them either. Half-Orcs get it too. Does it ever come in handy? No. They don't even get Weapon Familiarity. *shakes head*

 

[ThirdWizard]

Gah, I hate the "<Racial> blood" abilities. They're so vague. I don't know of anything that specifically use them either. Half-Orcs get it too. Does it ever come in handy? No. They don't even get Weapon Familiarity. *shakes head*

Half-orcs do get the wonderful ability for dwarves to get bonuses against them.

 

[JimAde]

Gah, I hate the "<Racial> blood" abilities. They're so vague. I don't know of anything that specifically use them either. Half-Orcs get it too. Does it ever come in handy? No. They don't even get Weapon Familiarity. *shakes head*

They do in my game.

I also have a bunch of race-specific magic items floating around. In the history of my world the goblins and orcs once had a huge empire in the campaign area complete with advanced arcane magic. They didn't want their magic items working for the pinks, though. All this is secret and nobody chose to play a half-orc... *sigh*

 

[Jdvn1]

Half-orcs do get the wonderful ability for dwarves to get bonuses against them.

Greaaat. I'm sure they're ecstatic about it too.

 

[Jdvn1]

They do in my game.

I also have a bunch of race-specific magic items floating around. In the history of my world the goblins and orcs once had a huge empire in the campaign area complete with advanced arcane magic. They didn't want their magic items working for the pinks, though. All this is secret and nobody chose to play a half-orc... *sigh*

Well, yes. Barring house rules. I tend to really like house rules to help out half-orcs, but RAW seems silly in that regard to me. RAW, half-orc might be more powerful without that ability.

 

[ThirdWizard]

They do in my game.

I also have a bunch of race-specific magic items floating around. In the history of my world the goblins and orcs once had a huge empire in the campaign area complete with advanced arcane magic. They didn't want their magic items working for the pinks, though. All this is secret and nobody chose to play a half-orc... *sigh*

They're probably best used if you want to tailor the item to a specific PC. For example, if you put a sword in some treasure, then it will probably go to the fighter type, but say you want this sword to be for the elven ranger who took bow feats. If the fighter is, say, human, you can make the sword only work for those with elvan blood and it will go to that character.

Of course, this means your PCs typically never run into an item that is made for a race that they don't represent...

 

[Pazu]

Cool; thanks for the replies!

So the big question: Does having access to these feats mean that the half-elf isn't underpowered after all?