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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...

If I recall, the Deck/Book of Many Things boxset was supposed to come out around holiday season last year, but there were some printing issues with the cards that ended up delaying the release.

Going to be a real issue if/when they revisit Eberron in earnest, if they keep to this approach...

Admittedly been a bit out of the loop these past few months, so I can't really claim to know precisely what Crawford said or didn't say. It may just have taken time to parse out exactly what the feedback was telling them. They may have known that the ardling didn't make the cut fairly quickly...

I suspect it boils down to the same reason they tried the ardling in the first place - they wanted a celestial planetouched option in the PHB to parallel the tiefling. Player feedback redirected the ardling's core concept away from "celestial planetouched" and toward a stricter focus on their...

Is there no other setting where, say, a powerful mageocracy might have tried creating an army of construct soldiers to fight a war with, even if that happened so far in the distant past that only a couple of those soldiers have survived to the present day and the nation they fought for is...

And yet they reverted the high elf => eladrin change, to the point of us now having versions of both that are quite distinct from one another... Shrugs The way I see it, changing warforged to, for the sake of argument, "ironforged" would be equivalent to changing tiefling to something like...