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    RPG Evolution: The Trouble with Halflings

    I would feel less shame playing a halfling if most of them looked like Lidda. And I believe they’re called hin in Forgotten Realms. The remaining shame would go away if “halfling” was replaced with that across the board.
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    RPG Evolution: The Trouble with Halflings

    Sorry, defined it for myself. Here are synonyms, again, for myself: enormous, huge, colossal. Not halfling head-sized, but not “slightly larger”. The gnome pic above isn’t horrible, but given the author’s own choice of words, I’m led to believe my gnome has to have a prodigious nose. I haven’t...
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    RPG Evolution: The Trouble with Halflings

    The nose of the forest gnome in the PHB is quite large and in line with the PHB text “Their tan or brown faces are usually adorned with broad smiles ( beneath their prodigious noses)…” Prodigious means “remarkably or impressively great in extent, size, or degree.” So read that bit as “(beneath...
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    RPG Evolution: The Trouble with Halflings

    Their heads are too big, their feet too hairy, they’re often perceived as pudgy, and they’re basically smaller humans, which are boring. Plus, the name is lame. Pathfinder fixed gnomes but Wizards is committed to gnomes having schnozzes the size of halfling heads. Thank goodness for the fairy...
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    D&D General Does Character Lifespan Even Matter?

    When I first played in 2e, I chose to be an elf because of their lifespan and because they didn’t show signs of aging until late in life. It mattered because I wanted my character to maintain his good looks for as long as possible after he retired. Why try to save the world if you’re going to be...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Weapons You Miss

    Elven bow
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    D&D General My Problem(s) With Halflings, and How To Create Engaging/Interesting Fantasy Races

    Apologies if folks have already mentioned this. Halflings are baby humans. If they’re boring, blame humans. Forest gnomes are baby elves, woodsy, skinny, and attractive, at least for a gnome. The other gnomes are baby dwarves, a bit on the stocky side.
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    D&D General Drow in early D&D

    In defense of the grey elves and drow... The 2e Book of Elves has a very pro-elf creation story. One group of gods took a very long time to create the elves. As they were getting close to putting the finishing touches on them, another set of gods got jealous and frantically tried their own...
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    D&D General Drow in early D&D

    2e Book of Elves: “The grey elves view themselves as the protectors of good in the world, but they will stir from their mountains and meadows to protect the “lesser” races only when they are faced with great evil. Grey elves act much like human knights - supercilious and condescending, full of...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Dwarfs, Elfs, and Memory

    That’d be cool. Yes, redemption would only be needed if they didn’t serve Lloth as well as they could have.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Dwarfs, Elfs, and Memory

    Drow may not reincarnate, right? (A drow might argue one life as a drow is worth an infinite number of non-drow lives.) So they may not be born with those skills, but they could order their slaves to teach them whatever.
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    D&D General Helping Small Characters Feel Small

    My forest gnome never gets a horse, he just rides with someone else. He can hide more easily. And he can be thrown over walls if needed.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Banishment and swallowed creatures

    If she is alive, she stays. If dead, she”s a carried object and goes with.
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    D&D 5E (2014) The alignments defined

    My typical characters wouldn’t be any of those alignments. I usually label them as N as I don’t think of them as slaves to any cause. Words like ‘always’ and ‘never’ don’t work.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Metamagic for wizards not for sorcerers?

    But only wizards have access to: I’M A DORK 1st-level enchantment (ritual) Casting Time: 1 action Range: Self Components: V Duration: 24 hours Upon uttering this spell’s name, you calm the ____ down. For the spell’s duration, you recall the fact that you’re unathletic, cowardly, unattractive...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Can Elves Watch Over the Party Though the Night?

    If non-elves are neglecting their guard duties and engaging in relatons, their passives may pick up a bit of drool from the elf’s mouth.
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    D&D 5E (2014) What Spells Would You Nerf? (and how would you change them...)

    Dispel Magic would only remove one spell on a creature, rather than infinity spells on a creature. The target would roll randomly to determine which spell goes away.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Can Elves Watch Over the Party Though the Night?

    Only drow are to be trusted.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Can Elves Watch Over the Party Though the Night?

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sageadvice.eu/2017/05/22/how-works-passive-perception-for-elf-during-trance/amp/
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    D&D 5E (2014) Why choose a conjurer wizard over a druid?

    The wizard has better odds for eternal life with Demiplane and Wish for Clone.
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