Yaarel
🇮🇱He-Mage
The main way to minimize Elf stats is by making sure the Elf stats themselves have maximal flexibility, so the DM and the players can build their own Elf whatever way they personally feel the Elf should be.
Something like: Your Charisma score or Dexterity score improves by 2, and one other ability score improves by 1.
Then high Charisma Intelligence Tulani Eladrin, are just an Elf. Dex +2 Cha +1 Legolas, is just an Elf. Dex +2 Str +1 Grugach is just an Elf, and so on.
I guess even the Triton here if it had Cha +2, Str or Con +1 would easily stand in to replace any Aquatic Elf tradition.
This Cha +2 Triton with innate water magic, would also replace the D&D Nixie.
The writeup for the Triton could just say something like: ‘The Triton − sometimes called the Aquatic Elf or the Nixie Sprite − is ...’. And done.
Something like: Your Charisma score or Dexterity score improves by 2, and one other ability score improves by 1.
Then high Charisma Intelligence Tulani Eladrin, are just an Elf. Dex +2 Cha +1 Legolas, is just an Elf. Dex +2 Str +1 Grugach is just an Elf, and so on.
I guess even the Triton here if it had Cha +2, Str or Con +1 would easily stand in to replace any Aquatic Elf tradition.
This Cha +2 Triton with innate water magic, would also replace the D&D Nixie.
The writeup for the Triton could just say something like: ‘The Triton − sometimes called the Aquatic Elf or the Nixie Sprite − is ...’. And done.
