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

[Hussar]

Doric was hurt because some of the important humans in her life (her parents) abandoned her and the only family she found was with the elves of the Emerald Enclave. None of the other heroes react to her in a negative light, nor is her species brought up by anyone except her. And to be fair, it's brought up as a personal flaw that she has to overcome. Edgin shows some definite Thayan prejudice, but every character calls him out on it. Xenk is there to deliberately challenge the notion of all Thayans are bad. It's the Red Wizards that are feared and hated, and considering their reputation, that's not an unwise thing. But again, Edgin and Xenk are used to remind us it's the Red Wizards, not the Thayans, that should be feared.

It’s almost like things like nuance and whatnot are better left up to individual tables rather than be dictated from on high.

 

[Remathilis]

I liked how Matt Mercer handled mixed ancestries in the Tal'Dorei Reborn book. Essentially, you choose one parent ancestry and replace a couple of traits from the other parent ancestry. There some advice on how to keep it all balanced, i.e. replacing one set of skill bonuses to another.

Here's a link for anyone curious: Tal’Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn - Darrington Press | DriveThruRPG.com

It was quoted up thread like 100 pages ago. It's an ok as back of a napkin system, but a lot of people aren't going to be happy with a system that's only check on powerful combinations is DM permission.

 

[Dragonhelm]

It was quoted up thread like 100 pages ago.

Never mind. I'll go back to lurk mode.

 

[Hussar]

Never mind. I'll go back to lurk mode.

Please don’t. New voices might break us out of our rut.

 

[FormerlyHemlock]

Edgin shows some definite Thayan prejudice, but every character calls him out on it. Xenk is there to deliberately challenge the notion of all Thayans are bad. It's the Red Wizards that are feared and hated, and considering their reputation, that's not an unwise thing. But again, Edgin and Xenk are used to remind us it's the Red Wizards, not the Thayans, that should be feared.

Hmmm. That makes sense and matches what I remember of the movie. You're probably right.

 

[Faolyn]

I think it does. Just like when you go to a movie you've volunteered to view the content.

I can walk out of a movie.

And unlike movies, people who play an RPG can and are encouraged to change things to better suit the table and players.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I’m saying it’s something that rarely if ever comes up in play. And considering you agreed with my point - one sleep spell months ago- and the next poster after me said their experiences mirrored mine,I’m kinda surprised about the level of push back here.

That is very recent. I’ve played maybe 12 hours of game time since then.

Sleep effects are not constant, okay, sure. Neither is just about thing else other than like…damage. It comes up more often than immunity to nonmagical damage, or trollish regen, IME.

My initial point was that I wonder if WotC has learned that there is a significant number of players who don’t really care about racial mechanics when choosing a race. It would nicely explain why WotC is de-emphasizing racial mechanics.

LOL or, they don’t know where the line is yet between making the species rules not make people look at wotc like the older uncle at thanksgiving who genuinely doesn’t know we don’t call people that anymore, dude, and making the rules satisfying to use.

 

[Umbran]

I think Umbran has a valid question.

I think it's to point out that there may not BE any sexism, or whateverism.

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[MoonSong]

Can we stop with the tangents and go back to how this is a huge "you don't exist" to all mixed-race people? (which includes the whole Latino population?)

 

[Minigiant]

I still think we don't need every combination.

I mean the halfelf just gave Elven language, a bonus skill, Fey ancestery, and a +1.

Can't e just combine all the mortal with elven, fey gnomish, fey gobliniod, fey firborg heritage with people touched by noble fey into a new renamed race?

We are renaming and redoingrace. Why not just rename and redo half orc and half elf?