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One aspect of species I'd like addressed is age. The USA would have only seen a few elven generations: the ones here prior to 1776...

Then what are you doing playing a game with classes? You should be playing GURPS.

This, to me, is the real problem. Modern humans have no real world experience with sentient creatures with radically different physical...

I dont know if I agree with that and in fact think the opposite is true. I think having halfling barbarian be as strong as a goliath...

I kind of come at the problem in the opposite direction. It's probably reasonable to assume that 75% of goblins are vicious cannibals...

I assume all species get all their species traits, PC and NPC alike. If needed I adjust statblocks with this in mind.

Yes. In my game for example, elves are "usually" chaotic good. This doesn't mean that all elves are chaotic good only that they are by...

I tend to approach species description as descriptive, rather than prescriptive. The typical wood elf might love forests, but there's...

In fictional worlds there's nothing wrong with exploring concepts that don't exist in the world, such as inherently evil...

Except that in a fantasy world, it doesn't have to be a cultural thing. You can have all dwarves inherently knowing the dwarven...

Moving the ASIs from Species to Backgrounds makes a certain amount of sense as picking up a certain background requires training in one...

But what if the species were smarter than average (such as corvids, which are wicked smart, pass on generational knowledge, and...

It's a theory. I don't think the theory holds up though, because my experience talking with 5e players is the lack of mechanical crunch...

Bioessentialism isn't wrong where it isn't false to facts. Indeed, where it is true to facts it inherently important. It's a taboo...

I really like Savage Worlds. In many ways, maybe even most, I like it better than DnD/Pathfinder. But there is one thing that I just...