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They’ve added extra reasons but let’s be very clear it isn’t genetically impossible. Draconic ancestor is one of the four examples...
Nov 25, 2025
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Probably best not say what is or is not genetically impossible in an imaginary elf game. Stories are filled with shapechanged dragons...
Nov 25, 2025
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Well that’s a mechanics / edition / balance shift issue not a setting issue. Half dragons have dragon blood, Dragonborn have draconic...
Nov 25, 2025
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Loads of races in Forgotten Realms don’t have origin stories. Pretty sure I don’t know the origin story of gnomes but don’t really have...
Nov 25, 2025
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I'm just saying, to the subject of the OP...nothing in the rules dictates that a player option needs to be common in a given Setting.
Nov 25, 2025
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Heh gives a whole different spin to the name "Forgotten Realms"
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It is not a bad design. It is awesome and I have not liked more balanced designs better when I have played them. Neither have other...
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Surely it’s obvious there are going to be some that don’t overlap. Why would you expect them all to. It’s a feat. But everyone of them...
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I guess I'm one of the hardass DMs mentioned. Two-hander? No problem, you just need two hands to attack, not hold. But you're not gonna...
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I actually will be starting my sandbox Dalelands campaign the same way Blood of Elves starts… The PCs and five or six other travelers...
Nov 23, 2025
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Yes
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Bladesinger still needs one hand free to cast Somantic components though right? Until they get Warcaster.
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I would think most spells an Eldritch Onight would cast in combat don’t have Material Components. Or at least there are enough that the...
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Andrzej Sapkowski is a great writer and world builder. He created places, political structures, rules for magic, gods, temples...
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I think we probably just mean different things, I'm more inclined to agree with @Whizbang Dustyboots here. World-building means creating...
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