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Nah. Let a halfling barbarian use a big ol' axe for comedy. If people can use any magic, a strong enough halfling barbarian can just, heft a giant axe

Fair enough. I'm pretty stuck to orcs being playable, but, I do come at this from the Warcraft side of things I am down for both being playable mind, but giving the half-orcs their own niche to be seperate would be hard, especially when most mention of half-orcs in 5E has generally been 'use...

I'd argue the problem we run into is D&D hasn't ever done anything to indicate why to keep just half orcs over going full orcs as they don't really do anything with the idea of it. Which falls into that "D&D hasn't really put their own mark on orcs so people just mentally put other orc ideas...

Neanderthal flip-flops into H. sapiens neanderthalensis common enough . Honestly when we get to the stuff that close its not a clear differentiation but more of a fuzzy line. "Species" of course remains a notoriously inconsistent term for where differentiations are as its there's no real...

Competing companies so unlikely. Though in Transformers there was a minicon line that turned into balls we all jokingly called bakugan Though I’m just happy one of my pals was involved in the design of the Beholder

While we have those versions, I'd argue we shouldn't have seperate 'These are the evil ones you can fight'. There should just, be "Here's the cult of the five flames. They're some dragonborn Tiamat cultists out to try to murder you" also like, frankly the astral elves are the ones we should be...

My favourite thing with the Proteans is their retroactive application of the Ogdoad to them and the slaadi. Good ol' primeval creation deity vibes But yeah, I've stuck with 4E's "They literately eat reality to try to return it to a swirling maelstrom of possibility" slaad because it gives them...

I mean, my go-to want for a Warcraft expansion involves a Silvermoon City raid where we break into Silvermoon. Alternate universe they're still High Elves Silvermoon i mean we're probably freeing a dragon or stoping them from stealing all the world's magic and it may actually be a ploy to get...

Yeah, you can publish whatever you want. No one's talking about censoring anything in all this but uh, let's not forget they're not doing Dark Sun because they think they wouldn't do a good job of it. Its not "They want to publish Dark Sun but got censored out of it oOoOo', its 'After how bad...

This doesn't seem relevant to the topic at hand, buuuut... If I can just, dig into that last point. you do know works have been edited for absolute decades, right? Like, just for a famous example, the original Nancy Drew books were edited to keep with the times and not be with, Certain Words...

To be fair though, half-orcs being a core race whereas full orcs were relegated to monster book and bonus stuff was always an incredibly weird look. Like, especially in this universe where World of Warcraft and Warhammer exist, and "New player who is a fan of the Warcrafts and wants to play a...

Hengeyokai are the most over genericified option in the game's history. They're supposed to be kitsune, tanuki, mujina, all of the various shapeshifting creatures But like. Those creatures are all different things. Kitsune run the gambit from "Incredibly divine spirits" to "One of the most evil...

I mean, let's be honest. 3.5E Goliaths were just 3.5E's half giants from the psionic handbook, but with the psionics replaced by survival stuff Giants are in their blood (plus I've seen some popular stuff that just made them half giant linked previously)

Yeah, stats aren't really a thing for player races I could see something like Formians, in that you could be Worker (Small, but with powerful build and able to carry stuff as if you were large, because ant), Soldier (Medium with stinger) and flying ones (For queens and drones), with the also...

Honestly, from a realism perspective, iron weapons would exist but, as low quality weapons. Not technological marvels, not miraculous. Just low quality stuff that's way better than it has any right to be Bronze was the preferred stuff at the time because it was easy to get a hold of, easy to...

Eh, I reckon there'll be a bit of pushback. We know playtest stuff showed people goit their set ideas for what classes should do with the sorcerer thing. However there's also the thing that if you're wanting people to come into D&D, you've got to make the classes obvious to what they're getting...

Precedent in D&D maybe, but that hasn't been used in over 30 years, whereas the wider fantasy audience out there has monk set in stone as 'the martial artist'. When all of the major MMOs (Everquest, Guild Wars, WoW and FFXIV all have a monk), and frankly 30 years of D&D at this point, call it...

A mystic really doesn't evoke a marital artist, whereas Monk is well known in the RPG space as 'The martial artist with chi powers' If you give me 'mystic' as an option I'm expecting you're giving me something similar to Pathfinder's Oracle well before a melee skirmisher

Minecraft has a robust survival system and a... Sort of just there combat system D&D's kind of the opposite, with a robust fighting system and not even a barebones survival system.

Oh, that's how its been in all of 'em forever. There's like a Sonic one, a HTTYD one, a Megaman X one of all things, all sorts of random ones just locked to the stuff. hence why I'm on Java edition and all of its bits and bobs