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    D&D General So how do Half-Elfs feel different to Elfs?

    Discussing cultural sensitivity is very relevant. Discussing your personal spiritual beliefs is not. If you have a problem with the depiction of elves because you believe they’re real and you’re descended from them… that’s not really something I can argue about, but it seems incredibly...
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    D&D General So how do Half-Elfs feel different to Elfs?

    I agree to an extent, in that I suspect accounts of alien abductions and UFOs are a modern expression of the same phenomena that accounts of encounters fae and similar otherworld entities come from. Possibly ghosts too. Again, I don’t want to go down this route because you seem to hold a...
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    D&D General So how do Half-Elfs feel different to Elfs?

    Not gonna touch that
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    Taylor Navarro Joins Wizards of the Coast as D&D Designer

    Also true of video game development
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    Taylor Navarro Joins Wizards of the Coast as D&D Designer

    Yeah, but the art is bright and colorful and has people smiling in it, and people told me the setting is a socialist utopia, so it must be pandering to people with dyed hair and pronouns!
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    D&D General So how do Half-Elfs feel different to Elfs?

    I’m pretty sure he means it in the sense that there were (potentially are?) real-life people who genuinely believe it.
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    D&D General So how do Half-Elfs feel different to Elfs?

    Ok… I’m just going to back out of this conversation now…
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    D&D General So how do Half-Elfs feel different to Elfs?

    Are you suggesting you have elven heritage…?
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    D&D General So how do Half-Elfs feel different to Elfs?

    There are real cultural folk beliefs about elves. D&D elves are, at best, loosely inspired by those folk beliefs. They are a copy of a copy of a copy (of a copy of a copy, etc.) that make no claims of accuracy to the source folk beliefs, and indeed often intentionally deviate from those folk...
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    D&D General So how do Half-Elfs feel different to Elfs?

    Did I ever suggest that I liked that take on them, let alone that you should…? All lore is real life lore. Elves are made-up. If someone wants to depict them as “about” the future, the past, the reason they can never find the left sock any of any pair, or whatever else they like, it’s all...
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    D&D General So how do Half-Elfs feel different to Elfs?

    Your preferred elf lore is not everyone’s preferred elf lore.
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    D&D General So how do Half-Elfs feel different to Elfs?

    Invented is an interesting choice of words for how they gained immortality. You’ve piqued my curiosity, how did they achieve it?
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    Taylor Navarro Joins Wizards of the Coast as D&D Designer

    I agree! I’m also not a fan of that brand of… I wouldn’t even call it criticism at that point, it’s uncritical consumption. EDIT: Spoilerblocking my whole rant, because it contains major spoilers for the entire series.
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    Dungeons & Dragons Playtests Four New Mystic-Themed Subclasses

    Not really... They said where current edition canon conflicts with previous edition canon, current edition wins.
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