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I would say being a Dragonborn, didn't play into it itself - being "other" did a bit. He went with the adopted angle. Grew up as the...
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Except for that one guy that we're talking about here. He hands you a half-elf. :p
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But that's the accusation thrown at DMs that have a curated list.
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I don't do collaborative world building nor would I be interested in joining such a game. The players do of course change the world...
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I love how it's always a lack of imagination on the part of the DM. Nobody is ever like, "I need to play a Tortle because I lack the...
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I'm just repeating the answer given on this forum by more than one person. To be honest it's how I pick my species most of the time if...
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Curious - can you give a short version of the arc and how or if being a dragonborn played into it?
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When 5e came out, I had had no experience at all with Dragonborn, and honestly, after looking them over, I found them as a PC race...
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Apparently the answer is "Because I want to be a tortle" since I've been told it's not about the mechanical benefits, worldview or...
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yes, which is why I initially wrote that there probably is some core you are not compromising on, but if that ‘core’ is ‘it has to be a...
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we will see how challenging DS is once that gets released. As to a setting for D&D, if the setting has its origins in 1e/2e or caters to...
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I disagree and here's why. The entire point of a compromise is to move off of your position towards the other side. Here a player...
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@AlViking offered up one. He offered up a race that was visually human(I think), but had tortle stats and culture. That's moving the...
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I will admit that I skipped most of the thread, coming into it around 50 or 60 pages in, but in the time I've been present here I...
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I think this is where the disconnect is, this is not a setting being designed for a new campaign, it is a setting that has existed for...
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