D&D 5E Do you care about setting "canon"?

[Maxperson]

Sigh. Semantics and pedantry. It is impossible to add something without changing whatever it is that you added to. "Additive changes" is just sophistry trying to masquerade as something it's not. Adding "slave race" and "enslaves other races" CHANGES the races we're talking about. Salamanders used to have nobility too. That's gone. Why aren't you complaining about these changes. They've flat out CHANGED (and not even additive here, they've flat out removed something that's been part of that race since 1e) game lore. Why aren't you complaining? If canon was important, and subtractive changes are bad, why are you defending this?

The semantics are yours, though. An addition is not a change like is being discussed in this thread.

Nice dodge

It's not his fault you picked a bad setting for your example. Planescape is written so that two different lores, Prime and Planescape can exist simultaneously about the same topic.

 

[Corwin]

This baffles me. You are completely okay with replacing Gold Elves with 5e elves, which are just as different as Eladrin. The only issue here is you can't seem to get around the noun. It's mind boggling.

This is what I was trying to get at earlier. I can't figure out why a colorful new name, when the race in question already has no less than three monikers in "original canon", is such a deal-breaker.

 

[Imaro]

This is what I was trying to get at earlier. I can't figure out why a colorful new name, when the race in question already has no less than three monikers in "original canon", is such a deal-breaker.

Well that and the fact that the original Eladrin were now gone in 4e...

 

[Corwin]

Well that and the fact that the original Eladrin were now gone in 4e...

Huh?!? I thought you were upset that 4e "created" Eladrin? Now you say 4e got *rid* of them? More confusion. Gah! My brain!

 

[Imaro]

Huh?!? I thought you were upset that 4e "created" Eladrin? Now you say 4e got *rid* of them? More confusion. Gah! My brain!

Where did I post that? My earlier posts concerning the Eladrin in this thread all center around them being changed in 4e. Perhaps you're confusing me with another poster?

 

[lowkey13]

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[jayoungr]

What if we split the difference? In 6e, they shall be known as ...


wait for it ...

ELFADRIN!

Thereby continuing the tradition that elves always sound like medications.

 

[lowkey13]

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[Corwin]

Where did I post that? My earlier posts concerning the Eladrin in this thread all center around them being changed in 4e. Perhaps you're confusing me with another poster?

Make up your mind. Are there "eladrin" in 4e or not? You seem to be waffling every other post.

 

[billd91]

Make up your mind. Are there "eladrin" in 4e or not? You seem to be waffling every other post.

Well, maybe you need to pay better attention or do a little more research on your own if you're confused. As has been pointed out earlier in the thread, "eladrin" meant one thing before 4e, 2e and 3e had them as CG extraplanar creatures, then the name was co-opted into teleporting elves in 4e. Going by the definition of eladrin from 2e/3e, I'm not at all sure 4e has them. Nevertheless, something bears that name in 4e - it's just not the same thing.