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

[CreamCloud0]

I use neither xp nor milestones.

I count encounters per level.

As DM, I prefer to keep all the player characters the same level.

my point exactly, an increased EXP requirement would be meaningless in groups that autolevel and prefer their group to be on equal footing level-wise

 

[Frozen_Heart]

Honestly fey/shadow touched is a super bad example of a planetouched template.

"you learn two spells" is as dry and flavourless as you can get.

 

[Scribe]

Honestly fey/shadow touched is a super bad example of a planetouched template.

"you learn two spells" is as dry and flavourless as you can get.

What can I say, my expectations are not high.

 

[CreamCloud0]

i don't know if i'd want both templates and mixed species as mechanics in the same game, like, i get that there's no real reason why any species shouldn't be able to be a tiefling or assimar but i think they also deserve to exist as their own species, i mean maybe you could have tiefling (species) and tiefling lineage (template/feat) but there'd also be the situation of combining both mixed ancestry with ancestry modifiers for a ton of disparate species traits

 

[Remathilis]

I thought it was a question of gaining it later, not level 1

So nobody is born a tieflng and they all spontaneously become become one at level 4?

 

[Frozen_Heart]

So nobody is born a tieflng and they all spontaneously become become one at level 4?

I mean... everyone gets a level 1 feat now automatically. Everyone turning into tieflings at level 4 would be odd, unless a story event caused it.

 

[Scribe]

So nobody is born a tieflng and they all spontaneously become become one at level 4?

No, I thought the discussion was around gaining a 'planetouched' aspect later on like one could gain templates in other editions, my bad.

 

[QuentinGeorge]

I wouldn't be bothered or care about Human-Elf or Elf-Human instead of using half. I don't think it's any more or less awkward and would just be a matter of forming the habit. After a few weeks I suspect it would feel just like Half-Elf feels right now.

Exactly. Why are we making up ridiculous euphemisms to replace perfectly usable terms again? "Human-Elf Oh, yeah, that's just what this edition calls a half-elf. No, I don't understand it myself."

 

[QuentinGeorge]

I view inclusivity and removal hatespeech as ethical and apolitical.

Half-Elf is hatespeech now? Ok.

 

[QuentinGeorge]

I think we should remove drow as a race. After all, its just a different skin-coloured elf. I think to avoid problematic issues it should just be rolled into "elf".

Actually defining a different species based on ear-shape also seems a bit problematic. Time to get rid of that too...