D&D 5E Halflings are the 7th most popular 5e race

[Mind of tempest]

Historically, that's what gods do.

The idea of a god as a moral authority is relatively modern for the most part. They told you what to do, slept with your wife and turned you into something unpleasant if you said 'boo' or proved better at knitting than them.

given how old the Euthyphro dilemma is it is old just not to the same extent as we might think.

the metamorphosis is biased as that guy hated all authority and thus does not illustrate that no one saw them as moral exemplars as over a thousand years of lost texts are hell on figuring out how people think.

Both of these go hand in hand with D&D finally letting go of some of it's less useful traditions.

define the traditions

 

[Vaalingrade]

define the traditions

Being sad and paranotic about flying and Good being weirdly authoritarian and cruel.

 

[Lanefan]

Dragons as PCs? Angels?

Just how overpowered do y'all want this to get, anyway?

 

[Vaalingrade]

Dragons as PCs? Angels?

Just how overpowered do y'all want this to get, anyway?

Yes.

 

[Mind of tempest]

Being sad and paranotic about flying and Good being weirdly authoritarian and cruel.

the latter has never made sense why would it make sense?

 

[Hussar]

Nothing.

Addition is groovy, but subtraction is unacceptable.

Which, because there are finite pages in the books, that we can’t really ever change the basic lineup. :/

 

[Parmandur]

Which, because there are finite pages in the books, that we can’t really ever change the basic lineup. :/

We are seeing several more in the next book. I don't personally consider the hybrid rules as taking anything away, but adding dozens of more options.

But no, no subtraction is acceptable.

 

[Hussar]

I mean, firstly I don’t care if dryads are in the phb, so if there were a hard cap and we had to ditch something to have dryads I’d just save them for the first expansion, or a Fey adventure/setting book.

Or high elves, which are dumb and not meaningfully differentiated from any other elf. 4e had it right with “Elf, Eladrin, Drow”.

Yeah they haven’t been super powerful for a while now. In lore, they vary n power between individuals.

So you’re willing to drop the second most popular race in the game to get dryads but balk at dropping halflings?

IOW dropping things out of the phb is okay, but only so long as it’s things you happen not to like.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

IOW dropping things out of the phb is okay, but only so long as it’s things you happen not to like.

I think there's a lot of that going on in this thread.

 

[MichaelSomething]

That's nothing race as class can't fix!

Dragons as PCs? Angels?

Just how overpowered do y'all want this to get, anyway?