D&D General Why Do People Hate Gnomes?

[Parmandur]

there is no quote on my end?

as I said I found it rather difficult to read.

There is a quote, guess you can't see the poster in question.

Different strokes for different folks, I guess. As I said, Tolkien is light pleasure reading for me.

 

[Faolyn]

One can assume that any player wants to play X has a good concept of what X is like. Let them do the work.

Except that this is something you'd expect in a point-buy system (and even those usually have templates), not in a game like D&D. Tasha's system kind of falls flat by removing a lot of what makes a nonhuman race different. It has everyone be a variant human who can choose darkvision instead of a skill.

That being said, I think that it might be possible to do in 6e. Maybe have a collection of traits that are divided into mental, physical, social, and magical categories, and you can pick a certain number of traits (with some traits being worth two slots, perhaps). And Elves, Dwarfs, and other typical races are already built as examples.

6e should still have lore sections for each race, though. Maybe they get relegated to the MM, though.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Except that this is something you'd expect in a point-buy system (and even those usually have templates), not in a game like D&D. Tasha's system kind of falls flat by removing a lot of what makes a nonhuman race different. It has everyone be a variant human who can choose darkvision instead of a skill.

 

[CleverNickName]

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Ugh. I hate darkvision so much.

 

[Faolyn]

Ugh. I hate darkvision so much.

As someone who loves to run horror games, I very much agree.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Ugh. I hate darkvision so much.

We should just handle like we did in the old days.

Write "five torches" on your character sheet and ignore light conditions for the remainder of the game.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Ugh. I hate darkvision so much.

I've tried using Roll 20's fog of war. I love it as half an excuse.

I honestly miss lowlight vision though, even if I don't care too much for the light source minigame. It's just weird that everyone is cats or bad at existing in a world made of dungeons with no middle ground.

 

[Crimson Longinus]

I've tried using Roll 20's fog of war. I love it as half an excuse.

I honestly miss lowlight vision though, even if I don't care too much for the light source minigame. It's just weird that everyone is cats or bad at existing in a world made of dungeons with no middle ground.

Fun fact: according to MM cats don't have darkvision.

 

[dragoner]

Have people mentioned the 70's Gnomes book yet?

Gnomes (book) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Vaalingrade]

Fun fact: according to MM cats don't have darkvision.

~headdesks so hard, the desk, floor and two apartment floors below are split in twain~

5E, Get yourself together man.