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I'm perfectly happy updating from a '14 "half-elf" to a '24 "half-elf" (whatever name it ends up using) - I've been through "edition changes" before, I can handle the mechanics being revised. I just want there to be something to update it to that isn't the '24 human or '24 elf, and at present...

Sorry, we're in a dead magic zone, so my character can no longer communicate with the rest of the party - I was using my innate elf cantrip to speak and understand Common. If they made the effort, they could give it enough information. Instead, Khoravar players are being told to be happy their...

You're right - absolutely no reason a traditionally forest-dwelling civilization might have for needing to see in the dark... Sarcasm aside, drow (darkvision), sea elves (water breathing), and avariel (wings) should not lose their defining characteristics due to an antagonistic abjurer or a...

No, they really don't. A people noted for being able to innately see in the dark or breath underwater should not have that ability stripped from them simply because they wandered into an antimagic field or got hit by a cast of dispel magic.

Which currently do not exist and are purely speculative at this time. Also doesn't do anything to alleviate the issue of a "feat tax" for mixed characters of non-human ancestry. Completely disagree on the whole "just turn all your traits into innate cantrips" thing, but we've been down that...

It is, admittedly, less of a glaring issue with "half-orcs" in Eberron, as they don't have the same kind of unified identity that Khoravar do and are far more interwoven into a mixed society of humans, orcs, and Jhor'guntaal, but the underlying point remains the same. Without the option of...

How about this then: "Half-elves" in original 5e had Darkvision and Fey Ancestry, which I think we can agree are biological enough to survive the shift to floating ASI and skill/item proficiencies to the character background, as well as Skill Versatility, which is a bit vaguer, but suggests a...

The proposed system supports mixed-ancestry so long as any particular mix only exists in limited numbers and cannot sustain itself as a population independent of its parent ancestries. Because to do so would suggest that they might need their own mechanics, and they are not allowed to have their...

I think you are missing the point somewhat. This is not me complaining about how difficult it would be to construct a statblock to use for Khoravar in my home games - I can homebrew with the best of them, and at the end of the day, I still have the '14 PHB. This is not about mixed-ancestry...

Hmm... If they're going to downplay the wings on the gold dragon, I'd honestly rather they just remove them entirely and go for the full serpentine, eastern dragon look.

Khoravar in Eberron are a 5+ millennia-old, self-sustaining population block native to Khorvaire that see themselves as a distinct people from their human and elven ancestors. They are not representative of all people of mixed human-elf heritage, by any means, but they are very prominent within...

And if they actually do so, I will happily concede the matter. But at present, everything they've said on the topic of mixed-ancestry characters is that they're not prominent/important enough to be worth consideration by the game system. Except nowhere do they actually SAY that. What they say...

There is plenty of room to introduce new characters for that purpose. They had no need to replace existing ones.

Or focused monster supplements like Bigby's, which I would also consider a decent expansion to any giant-themed adventure toolkit.

Never been much of a Driz'zt fan or delved into WEBTOON comic stuff, so I guess it passed me by. Would be a positive sign, if anything ever comes of it, though it really only shows what they've previously claimed - that mixed ancestry characters are still supported at least as far as the...

Sure, in theory, though it puts Eberron players in a bind until they get around to releasing a new Eberron book - assuming Khoravar and Jhor'guntaal still exist in Eberron lore by the time they do so... But more importantly, it still leaves the PHB saying that from the perspective of the core...

Let me be clear: I am in no way, shape, or form advocating for a return to the "half-X" nomenclature. I am advocating for the preservation of distinct mechanical toolkits for Khoravar and Jhor'guntaal (or whatever other names you want to ascribe to peoples of mixed human-elf/human-orc ancestry...

Of course. Just saying that's why I disagree with the whole "take away distinct 'half-elf/orc' mechanics and shove every reference to the existence of mixed-ancestry characters into a sidebar in the PHB" thing. It enforces a view of mixed-ancestry peoples that pretty much treats them as...

Still a bit clunky, in my opinion. "Hybrid" may be technically accurate, but it's useless without also first specifying what components the hybrid consists of - no one's just a hybrid, they're an "x-y hybrid" or an "x-z hybrid", which basically means it only really serves to replace the word...

I don't think anyone is advocating for a return to the "half-X" nomenclature. The only reason I sometimes default to using "half-elf" and "half-orc" to describe characters/populations of mixed human-elf and human-orc heritage is a combination of habit and the fact that my go-to alternates of...