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

[bedir than]

Well it's confirmed. The half-elf NPC from phandelver has been retconned into a drow.

Seems like hybrid species are being actively retconned out of the adventures and official settings.

It's not a retcon. Lost Mines still has a half-elf NPC.

The new book which is a different adventure in a different timeline, per all of WotC's statements about canon, has a drow in the same place.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

It's not a retcon. Lost Mines still has a half-elf NPC.

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The new book which is a different adventure in a different timeline, per all of WotC's statements about canon, has a drow in the same place.

I mean, it really sounds like what you're describing is a retcon by any normal standard. The timeline thing sounds like absolute smoke-and-mirrors.

 

[bedir than]

I mean, it really sounds like what you're describing is a retcon by any normal standard. The timeline thing sounds like absolute smoke-and-mirrors.

The past hasn't change at all.
That adventure is free for everyone to use, and has the exact same species that people falsely claim has been eliminated from the game.

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

I will say, one data point does not a trend make.

Regardless, not a good sign...

 

[Ruin Explorer]

The past hasn't change at all.
That adventure is free for everyone to use, and has the exact same species that people falsely claim has been eliminated from the game.

Let me ask you this - have they changed out any other characters in the same way?

 

[Frozen_Heart]

Let me ask you this - have they changed out any other characters in the same way?

They changed Elmar Barthen into Elmina Barthen. Same species still though.

Weirdly I've heard of this exact change same being made in the past, but can't remember the source.

 

[Micah Sweet]

It's not a retcon. Lost Mines still has a half-elf NPC.

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The new book which is a different adventure in a different timeline, per all of WotC's statements about canon, has a drow in the same place.

How convenient...

 

[bedir than]

Let me ask you this - have they changed out any other characters in the same way?

I don't purchase most adventures as I run a homebrew campaign.

 

[bedir than]

How convenient...

Do you want a world with interconnecting world destroying evils in constant upheaval? Or do you want a world where your character is heroic?

Because the idea that every single adventure must exist in every single world means that your character isn't a hero. There are tens of thousands of people just like them.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Do you want a world with interconnecting world destroying evils in constant upheaval? Or do you want a world where your character is heroic?

Because the idea that every single adventure must exist in every single world means that your character isn't a hero. There are tens of thousands of people just like them.

I have no problem with PCs not being heroes.