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And its been a weird look for those past 30 years. Let's not kid ourselves, it has always been a weird look that one of the basic races for the game is "One of your parents is an elf and the other a human, but you're all rare enough its not like a big ol civilisation or anything". Its been a...

Let's not drag back to that hot mess of an argument because of how absolutely messy it got when we had the elves who have actual differences to them Both of those races are in the PHB, so why do we need a combo of them to also be in the PHB? No other PHB race is a combination, why should a...

Elf (Darkvision and Fey Ancestry) and humans (Versitile is just their skill bonus but stronger). Almost like they're half of humans, and half of elves. Avarial and aquatic elves have unique combinations of abilities, but we still consider them under Elf overall. Why should half elf be treated...

My blanket statement is "They're fine in D&D but they are a variant on an existing race, not a stand-alone thing. They should be relegated to similar status as the Wood/High/Dark elf mix or put in a future book dealing with more ingrained stuff, not the PHB" I'm hardly the first one to say it...

Firbolg aren't in the PHB? That's basically my argument. Half elves conflict too much on the elf design space so they're best left for other books. Just like Firbolgs are in another book, that's where Half Elves should be Angels and giants aren't playable. Elves are. Aasimar adiditonally...

Powerful Build got removed from orcs This is the starter book supposed to show you a wide variety of options to pick from, not the "Most popular choices in game's history" book. Popularity absolutely should sit to the side for a wider assortment of niches to give new players a wider option. I...

The only shared abilities in the PHB are Darkvision and the idea of damage resistence. They changed it up so no races share abilities. So, yeah, Half Elves would stick out as the only one that just uses another race's options And I like Thri-Kreen and Genasi, but I understand why they don't...

Two abilities is still enough, plus the whole entire set of "Pick your elf type" options that SCAG brought along and are outstandingly popular. Whereas, all of the options in One? They all have unique abilities, every single one of them, even when they probably shouldn't (orc should get...

Frankly should have made something new up than pick gnolls, who have been playable since basic. Something being in every edition as 'yup these can be people, just weird hyena ones' probably wasn't the best idea, especially after their 4E interpretation was so well received Hence being watered...

Reincarnation roll gone spicy, or self-polymorph experiment to hide from debtors

To try to veer this topic back on topic (i say, after the metaphorical truck has already sailed mostly off the cliff it violently hurled towards), half elves were left out due to them being too similar to elves. That's their ultimate weakness you're not going to get around: half elves are...

Just dragging back to this, but, there's a lot of factors here. Half elves being, mechanically, a really strong race is one thing to note, along with the fact that half elves and elves are free, but kobolds are a paid option If I wanted to really make things messy I'd point out that, for custom...

The Creature Crucible 3 are their own weird little segment because, sure, you got sphinges in there, but just the same you've also got downright regular re-occurring ones like Pixies and Centaurs from Tall Tales, and Aquatic Elves and Tritons from Sea Peoples which, I reckon most people would...

Technically don't playable gnomes slip into Mystara due to Top Balista? I don't think said flying mechanical city ever showed up again, but the implication I got was that it was wherever you wanted it to be in there.

Turtle people are like, baby's second anthropomisation. So, yeah, its grounded and relatable because enough Warcraft has me associated tortles with a certain memetic phrase from Warcraft. So, yeah, a bunch of old folks (turtles are wrinkly, live a long time, and are slow, so those are the...

Are we gonna have to have that discussion about how D&D wears its influence on its sleaves or should I just go right to the part where there was a Morbius creature in the Fiend Factory (Didn't make it to the Folio, but showed how the influences came in), how 1E stuff had Mars encounter tables...

The issue you really do face with half elves is they're Elves Light. At the moment, in a case where races aren't adding too much to things, it does raise the question of using your limited space for two options that are really similar to each other I get they have their fans, but that's the...

And the reason they're not in is the weakness of their lore in the game's history and the generally Weirdness that "Yeah you're half an elf and half a human" is suppoed to be a regular and common enough thing that's regular as an adventurer that you exclude other races. I get it used to be...

Aardling got dropped pretty quick for just aasimar again Mind, aardling had that weird "are they trying to be beastfolk or trying to be angels" thing going on that it kind of didn't fulfil either desire

I mean, they're doing something interesting for once That's why half elves and half orcs aren't in the PHB.