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Mike Mearls Discusses the First Round of Public D&D Next Playtests
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<blockquote data-quote="Incenjucar" data-source="post: 5929764" data-attributes="member: 6182"><p>And I appreciate that.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It's absurd because there is no story explanation for it in the game itself. I have never seen text that states that dwarves have a magical connection to stonework throughout the world that allows them to know the <strong>culture</strong> that created it <strong>without ever having been exposed to it</strong>. There is no explanation offered. If these things are written into their souls, and not just the result of their culture, it needs to be explicitly stated, as with thri-kreen and their racial memory. It would still be rather ham-fisted, but at least it would cease to be absurd.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So, you support an extended lifespan as a ranger ability, and shield surfing as an elf racial ability...?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Every Drizzt novel has been on the NYT Best Seller's list.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The fixing is providing a culture-neutral race for people who like the physical concept but not the cultural one, or who want to work against it without being actively punished by the rules for daring to break the mold.</p><p></p><p>If I want to play a sword-using, seafaring dwarf from a jungle where she was raised to paint with all the colors of the wind, instead of a hammer-wielding ore jockey, I don't want for all of my racial abilities to be useless sheet filler.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>There are a variety of ways to deal with it, certainly. I just want to see a core game that's open enough that people don't have to wait for modules to start playing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Incenjucar, post: 5929764, member: 6182"] And I appreciate that. It's absurd because there is no story explanation for it in the game itself. I have never seen text that states that dwarves have a magical connection to stonework throughout the world that allows them to know the [B]culture[/B] that created it [B]without ever having been exposed to it[/B]. There is no explanation offered. If these things are written into their souls, and not just the result of their culture, it needs to be explicitly stated, as with thri-kreen and their racial memory. It would still be rather ham-fisted, but at least it would cease to be absurd. So, you support an extended lifespan as a ranger ability, and shield surfing as an elf racial ability...? Every Drizzt novel has been on the NYT Best Seller's list. The fixing is providing a culture-neutral race for people who like the physical concept but not the cultural one, or who want to work against it without being actively punished by the rules for daring to break the mold. If I want to play a sword-using, seafaring dwarf from a jungle where she was raised to paint with all the colors of the wind, instead of a hammer-wielding ore jockey, I don't want for all of my racial abilities to be useless sheet filler. There are a variety of ways to deal with it, certainly. I just want to see a core game that's open enough that people don't have to wait for modules to start playing. [/QUOTE]
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