D&D (2024) How did I miss this about the Half races/ancestries

[Corinnguard]

Silverymoon, city in FR.
3rd ed, 37,000 population. half elves 12% of total. that is 4440 in kind of a small area.

That is a sizeable population. Given time, they could probably become their own race. In the Midgard setting by Kobold Press, Half-Dragons of the Mharoti Empire became their own race. The Dragonkin. Dragonkin – 5th Edition SRD

Hehe. I like to think the Dragonkin arose from Half-Dragon Genasi because four out of the five Dragonkin subraces have an elemental connection about them.

 

[Yaarel]

How would this affect Eberron? Dragonmarks, Khoravar and House Lyrandar, House Medani, House Tharashk, etc.? Would an entire campaign setting have to be revised for this initiative?

Dragonmarks are easily a Background.

Any "house" in the sense of a family tradition can make a great Background.

 

[Pedantic]

They really ought to get another name because 'halfling' is kind of a terrible name for 'short people'. But that won't happen until the word hobbit enters the public domain.

Fantasy Craft used "Pech" and specifically rolled gnomes in as a subspecies, alongside your more classic stoutfoot and riverfolk and so on.

 

[Corinnguard]

In the Arcana Evolved setting, Gnomes and Halflings were combined into one race, the Faen. Gnomes were called Loresong Faen. Halflings otoh were called the Quickling Faen. Members of the Faen could even undergo a metamorphosis and become Sprytes.

 

[Mallus]

My reactions to this are, in order: It's an elegant solution that sidesteps the need for balancing mix-and-match traits between dozens of playable humanoids, I don't particularly like it, wait... it's essentially Mr. Spock (a Vulcan/human mix with the mechanics based one parent).

If it's like Star Trek, it must be good!

(with a few exceptions)

 

[UngeheuerLich]

we should return racial ability score modifiers, but with added change.

Ability scores are only used for ability checks.

attack, damage, saves, DCs, bonus HPs, all use proficiency modifier instead of ability modifier.

And I'd change the modifier to score-10.
Then yes, it might work.
And being big should come with +4 or more to str and no cap.

I'd play that game. But that would be 6e, not 5e anymore.

 

[UngeheuerLich]

My reactions to this are, in order: It's an elegant solution that sidesteps the need for balancing mix-and-match traits between dozens of playable humanoids, I don't particularly like it, wait... it's essentially Mr. Spock (a Vulcan human/human mix with the mechanics based one parent).

If it's like Star Trek, it must be good!

(with a few exceptions)

Star Trek Picard feels more like a roleplaying session than Star Trek... and it has Legolas in it... and Terminator vibes...

and it is not bad at all...

 

[Horwath]

Star Trek Picard feels more like a roleplaying session than Star Trek... and it has Legolas in it... and Terminator vibes...

and it is not bad at all...

season 3 is good.
season 1&2, horrible.

 

[Weiley31]

WoTC: Half-Elf and Half-Orc are racist.

Me who is English, Italian, Irish, Jewish, German, smidgen of Dutch, and Cherokee somewhere according to my aunt.

I'm offensive???

 

[shadowoflameth]

If people follow the idea that mechanically having the abilities of one parent or the other is does not do it for them, they could add that mixed lineage characters can pick a feat to gain features of another ancestry. People who want more complexity can have it and the default choice can be simple.