Recent content by AlViking

The only way to really evaluate a house rule like this is to try it out with a group. To me it doesn't seem like there's enough benefit because many players are pretty casual and this adds quite a bit of complexity. Your group on the other hand may love it. Try it out, come back with...

Gods in my campaign are very active - but not necessarily active in the prime material plane. First of all, gods have their own concerns and issues and their priorities don't always have much to do with mortals. There's also a feedback loop, the more worshippers a specific god has the more...

That's easy Human Elf High Wood Dwarf Gnome Halfling Half-Elf (use Khoravar) Half-Orc A note about Half-Orcs, we use the orc traits for now. They aren't full blooded orcs for lore, consistency, origin and thematic reasons. Orcs are similar to Storm Troopers after order 66 (and before they...

My take as well. Even a fish out of water knows that if they could get back to the water they'd be home. But for a half-elf, there is no home.

I just picked one quick example that popped into my head, there are many examples of convergent evolution. A killer whale is not at all a close relative of sharks but if you didn't know one was a mammal and the other a fish you could say they look like they are closely related. They look...

Then I still don't know what you're trying to get at. Even though we can never know what an accurate depiction would look like, it doesn't mean we can't try. It's bad enough with elves, where I find it really difficult is with fey creatures. It's another example where it's difficult to make...

I'm not looking for a fight - you're the one who said I was upset. I was asking why you thought I was because as far as I can tell I gave no indication that I was. If you can't or don't want to explain that's fine as well.

This is a discussion about options on how to portray elves so I'm not sure what you're saying or if we even disagree. I think we can tell very human stories by including non-human perspectives. We don't have to of course, Star Wars as another example certainly doesn't. I personally think...

In order to simmer much more I'd have to take a nap. Why the insistence that I'm irrationally upset? Why would you think I'm telling anyone else how to play?

I agree to a certain point and we can never truly understand how a different species would think. We certainly don't know (or perhaps accept) how much evolution has shaped our ideas, morality and view of the world. A certain level of evolutionary convergence is likely and it's quite possible...

Did I ALL CAPS anything? Perhaps use a different color or maybe BOLD ALL CAPS IN A DIFFERENT COLOR? Since I didn't why would you assign an emotional state to a response where I simply gave a different opinion? I wasn't "upset", so why even bring it up other then to somehow belittle my opinion...

We were discussing a best guess at what they would be like. I was responding to the statement "Living longer means accomplishing bigger, more ambitious, more impactful goals. Longevity motivates more productivity, more innovation, more responsibility." I don't think that is the only or even...

I was discussing what I think they should be like, not how fiction depicts them. For D&D most species have slowly become more "humans in costumes" over the years. Doesn't mean I have to agree with that depiction any more than I think they need to do things we would consider grandly ambitious in...