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

[Micah Sweet]

I view inclusivity and removal hatespeech as ethical and apolitical.

And yet plenty of people think of half-elves and half-orcs as making the game more inclusive, not less.

 

[Yaarel]

And yet plenty of people think of half-elves and half-orcs as making the game more inclusive, not less.

I agree to remove multispecies would be less inclusive.


However, to remove the term "half" is an improvement. "Human-Elf" and "Elf-Human" are fine.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I agree to remove multispecies would be less inclusive.


However, to remove the term "half" is an improvement. "Human-Elf" and "Elf-Human" are fine.

Those seem awkward. Better to come up with a new term I think.

 

[Frozen_Heart]

dragonborn/tieflings

Honestly, I think this bit right here is a completely separate issue. I like what pathfinder 2e has done with planetouched, where it's a template which can be applied to any species.

It stands to reason that any species could be hit with planar influences.

 

[Frozen_Heart]

Those seem awkward. Better to come up with a new term I think.

I mean, the term used for irl hybrids is simply combining the names. The order of the combination depending on which parent is which species. Liger/Tigon. Grolar/Pizzly.

But I suspect that 'Helf/Elmen' and 'Horc/Ormen' might be offensive.

 

[Yaarel]

Those seem awkward. Better to come up with a new term I think.

To say "Human-Elf" seems equally awkward to "Fighter-Rogue" or "Paladin-Sorcerer".

"Human-Elf" is normal D&D nomenclature for a "multi".

Actually, it would be "Fighter/Rogue" and "Paladin/Sorcerer" with a slash.

I guess, to say "Drow Human/Elf" is fine.

By extension, maybe?

• Human/Drow-Elf
• Red-Dragonborn/Abyssal-Tiefling

 

[Micah Sweet]

I mean, the term used for irl hybrids is simply combining the names. The order of the combination depending on which parent is which species. Liger/Tigon. Grolar/Pizzly.

But I suspect that 'Helf/Elmen' and 'Horc/Ormen' might be offensive.

Hence an entirely new term. People aren't animals.

 

[Micah Sweet]

To say "Human-Elf" seems equally awkward to "Fighter-Rogue" or "Paladin-Sorcerer".

"Human-Elf" is normal D&D nomenclature for a "multi".

Actually, it would be "Fighter/Rogue" and "Paladin/Sorcerer" with a slash.

I guess, to say "Drow Human/Elf" is fine.

I have never seen the term "human-elf" used in a D&D context by anyone other than you.

 

[Yaarel]

I have never seen the term "human-elf" used in a D&D context by anyone other than you.

That is because D&D previously used the problematic term "half".

If a character is a Wizard/Paladin, no one refers to the person as a "half-wizard".

 

[Yaarel]

Hence an entirely new term. People aren't animals.

Technically, humans are animals.

I find the blended names nontransparent and arbitrary.

It would take me a while to realize that an "Elmen" is an Elf/Human.