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I mean, you're correct on the second point there, that isn't balance That's called "Poor encounter design" and kinda is irrelevant to this thread as a whole? The discussion is on balance. BBEG's go down super quickly in every edition except 4E anyway. If you want them to stay around, take some...

I disagree with this. They very much care about balance, as a certain old edition (Of the "3.5e is more balanced if you ban every PHB class" infamy) showed us. Not caring about balance would be wanting BMX Bandit versus Angel Summoner situations Folks want to be able to meaningfully contribute...

Unless of course the mum is the player's former character In which case they then get the enjoyment of getting to RP both their mum bothering their kid, and their adventurer being upset their mum is like this. As it should be.

I mean the patron isn't necessarily there, they're generally off in another realm or something So its just a voice the PC hears at the Appropriate Times telling them to do a thing or write home (the patron is their mum)

There's a few of us gnome fans out there. We will fight viciously against folks trying to merge halflings in, we don't need no hobbitses in our gnomes Gnome tinkers has stuck hard on them, though. If anything's going to survive, its the tinker aspect, what with elves already hogging part of the...

When it comes to Egypt though, you gotta remember that was the religion at the time and also, we're closer to the fall of the Egyptian civilisation than they were to the start of it. Religon just, changes over time, and Ra being side-graded to the whole Osiris side of things thing is just what...

Whismsy. Just a pinch of lightheartedness, just a scrap. And no, I mean Autognomes who canonically are just built that good they've got souls Warforged and Autognomes have souls, plus Golmoids if you like your random Dragon Magazine articles. S'why all the various raise from dead spells work on...

Whimsy Also will drag a setting kicking and screaming into "Yeah we have robots now (the gnomes accidentally figured out how to make souls and the robots now have souls)"

Gnome supremacy I could write instead about how it does infer that half elves do indeed fill that gap between humans and elves so losing them isn't nearly as bad as losing a unique race and therefore they should be considered expendable for future editions, as both elves and humans will always...

I got that many witch homebrews in my Homebrew Pile that, legit, you could pull an easy all witch party with every single one using different mechanics I will note on this that, despite Tolkein being the inspiration for half elves, they've never really followed his way on how it is. Instead...

I mean, when I started the world it was more a Warcraft thing, so "thing I can put in my world" and "available WC3 custom content" tended to be a bit of a circle of a venn diagram

Being that popular means I'm probably going to find a way to include them in my world and try to do some unique stuff with 'em (Drag them away from the cartoonishly evil portrayal of the past for one) and also focus on the enviroment they're in, resulting in having to think about what the...

That's how Pathfinder 2E does it, and I'd be fine with it My opposition remains to them taking the place of one of the 10 seperate options at the moment, so being a sub option like the elves is acceptable (plus let's be honest the PHB kinda be needing more of those) Before I even knew about...

They're never going to be unique though, they're half elves. They've been a mix of elf and human in every edition except 4E. Why should we lose a fully formed race for half elves? Just nostalgia? As above, so below (though I do think the High/Wood/Dark split is probably the easiest to handle...

I'll drag this one up first: I don't want to give up one of the races we have at the moment. I don't think half elves are more important than the 10 races we have at the moment I respect that half elves are important to folks and they want them back, but I'm not willing to give up what we have...

Would be the better spot for 'em in my opinion. Gives you an example of how to build your own race by very noteable building blocks (IE: The pieces of pre-existing races) and its a popular archetype for folks to muck around with

I will oppose this and say that I think the half races do serve as a good mix and match thing Show folks how to design a new race with them as the goal like Aasimar were back in the original DMG. Explain the background weighting of features and how they're balanced internally for re-balancing...

What measures do we have though? We have 5E's character numbers, which we know for a fact is inherantly biased due to the half elf's inherant power. We don't have anything that comprehensive for any other edition. I decided to do an experiment on this, incidentally, and ways we can determine...

When even /tg/'s little wiki opens their Half Elf article with "who, alongside gnomes, have the dubious honor of being regarded as one of the most superfluous and "do we really need this race?" races in fantasy gaming", I get the feeling its not just a me thing. Gnomes at least have a bit of a...