D&D (2024) Half Race Appreciation Society: Half Elf most popular race choice in BG3

[Remathilis]

So in other words hide it so you don't have to see it? Why in the world would you fo that?

Keep a simple option (custom lineage) in the PHB. Add "build a species" rules to the DMG for people who want an aarakroca with fire breathing. But don't make "build your own species" a default option unless you want every character to be a hybrid with the best traits.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Keep a simple option (custom lineage) in the PHB. Add "build a species" rules to the DMG for people who want an aarakroca with fire breathing. But don't make "build your own species" a default option unless you want every character to be a hybrid with the best traits.

Feats and multiclassing aren't default options. Yet what's that I see in the PH?

 

[MoonSong]

I think one good solution to this issue is to have a new species name of Fey-Touched. Describe it as a person either transformed by fey magic or born that way due to fey ancestry. Could be Elven ancestor, or could be any other Fey source or source of Fey magic. Give them the Half-elf stats. But emphasize not the genetics part of it, but they Fey magic part of it. Now you've taken some racist elements out of the concept while still having the species as distinct from humans and elves.

That's still erasure.

 

[Remathilis]

Feats and multiclassing aren't default options. Yet what's that I see in the PH?

Do you know how few DMs don't allow them either?

Trust me, unless custom hybrids are somehow mechanically inferior than normal species, they WILL become the default option. And it won't be because players have an interesting idea for a mixed character, it will be because X and Y traits produce the best competitive edge. The charops will find the best mixed lineages and they will become the primary choices for PCs (outside of newbies and hardcore RPers). Why play an elf when you can be a hybrid elf/tieflng and some get the advantages of both?

 

[Micah Sweet]

Do you know how few DMs don't allow them either?

Trust me, unless custom hybrids are somehow mechanically inferior than normal species, they WILL become the default option. And it won't be because players have an interesting idea for a mixed character, it will be because X and Y traits produce the best competitive edge. The charops will find the best mixed lineages and they will become the primary choices for PCs (outside of newbies and hardcore RPers). Why play an elf when you can be a hybrid elf/tieflng and some get the advantages of both?

Oh well? Police your own table.

 

[Mistwell]

That's still erasure.

I don't care? To me, it's important to have a half-elf in the game which is functionally different than a human or elf. I can re-fluff it however I want. There is nothing meaningful to me about some "erasure" of an adored concept because a name and fluff is being changed.

 

[Remathilis]

Oh well? Police your own table.

I can just see the flack about how DMs who don't allow hybrid PCs at their table are being discriminatory...

 

[Micah Sweet]

I can just see the flack about how DMs who don't allow hybrid PCs at their table are being discriminatory...

DMs get flack all the time.

 

[MoonSong]

I don't care? To me, it's important to have a half-elf in the game which is functionally different than a human or elf. I can re-fluff it however I want. There is nothing meaningful to me about some "erasure" of an adored concept because a name and fluff is being changed.

You don't care that it made me feel welcome and it's loss makes me feel less welcome? T.T

 

[Remathilis]

You don't care that it made me feel welcome and it's loss makes me feel less welcome? T.T

Hey, how would you feel if there was a system in the PHB that allowed you to build hybrid species PCs, but the DM didn't allow it because it was unbalanced?