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Dwarves in Symbaroum are interesting and go back in some ways to their original Norse mythological origins. I'm going to copy someone else's summary because I'm lazy Also, no beards.

Yeah, say what you like about halflings but at least they're not elves!

Yeah, almost everyone else had an underdark equivalent. Where are the deep humans?

Yeah I think it is. The only real true distinction from humans is their greater pluck. Potential levels of pluck being a quality of directly inverse proportionality to one's height.

Yes. Although I think trad games, and in particular D&D as many people expect it to be played these days, suffer hugely in this regard from GM burnout and lack of GMs. Ultimately I'm not sure this is a style of play that by and large people who are able to run games week in, week out, actively...

Their shortness is also heightened. Or er...shortened.

People just weirdly overthink things. People play halflings because they want to play short plucky heroes. Anything beyond that is pretty limited to probably less than 1% of D&D players.

That's D&D though isn't? The Ranger was designed so you could play Aragorn. Honestly it feels to me like the throughline to Gygax to 5e is that the game was designed to offer a grab bag of character options without much care to how they all fit together outside of the dungeon or adventure at...

Why exactly do we care if Forgotten Realms or Critical Role is more popular?

Honestly I think the popularity of D&D has something to do with this. The DM can always just throw in a fight and by the time it's done it's time for everyone to go home and the DM has a week to think of what to do next. And more generally I think a lot of players find role-playing in...

That's because the secret halfling ninjas assassinate the troublemakers in advance.

Ok I guess I've been successfully trolled.

I think you mean so far as the characters know. It's pretty obvious to the players. I don't get how people can't see the distinction here. Bob the Paladin. I go for a walk on the Moors. DM: Really? There's a severe thunderstorm blowing and you're wearing full plate. Bob: Yeah. I'll take my...

I am talking about the same thing! What happens when 12 Orcs encounter a party? They threaten the party, demand their surrender etc. What happens when 1 Orc encounters the party? Clearly he can't win a fight against them, so there's a different sort of encounter. Maybe he runs away and the...

A random encounter is not even close to being a procedurally generated adventure. A random encounter is not a "chaff" encounter. If a DM is throwing in random encounters as some kind of punctuation to a game than that DM is, sad to say, completely cluessless about what they are doing. A random...

I find it interesting how leadership is so often confused with authority.

I actually find that having Tolkien elves wandering around in a setting that also has fey elves just weird. My preference is to cut out the Tolkien elves.

"Chasten wrote that men and fairies both contain within them a faculty of reason and a faculty of magic. In men, reason is strong and magic is weak. With fairies, it is the other way around; magic comes very naturally to them, but by human standards they are barely sane." From Jonathon Strange...

You could, but you'd find that English already had a lot more pronouns back then.