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Discworld alignments feel like they're actually set on the axis's of trope/genre savvy<->trope/genre unaware VS plays to them<->defies them

you know for a game literally named dungeons and dragons i'm kind of surprised that dragonborn get as much dislike as they do, i would've thought they'd fit right in.

is an adventuring group made up with all of them called a salad? :unsure:

well, the plant person concept extends past dryads being the sole basis, they don't need to make a player species with that limitation if they do make a plant person species.

ah yeah that's fair, probably not going to take out the 'neutral default' human as an option, that reminds me though, i've considered the concept of a full... pseudo-human..? setting, not being able to immediately visually tell a character's species, you've got humans obviously, but also...

i can't believe 5e still doesn't have a proper playable dryad option, plant people are, well, while not a favourite concept exactly are still very much a staple one, LotR even had the ent's for goodness sake even if those didn't get brought into the spotlight with the rest of the tolkien species.

i'd like to what would get created if the mould was broken a little more and the tolkien core four/five and their well-worn dynamics weren't inserted into every setting as default, what might you get with a setting where your baseline species are a lineup of, say, dragonborn, gnomes, kobolds...

in a similar situation to two other posters earlier in the thread (twosix and someone else i believe it was) i actually see this in the opposite way, it's much more justifiable IMO that someone somewhere in some small corner of the world managed to cultivate some new source or application of...

i've considered something similar before while thinking about species, dwarves got light geokinesis (BA mold earth and earth tremor), halflings maybe you can lean into their history of being good throwers? (i know it's not hugely thematic but it's something) give them increased range/accuracy...

sorry for picking at this, but i just need to point out that there's no h in tiefling.

IMO pretty much the only real difference between them is how widely known they are, and given i know pretty much absolutely nothing about Glantri or Forgotten Realms or the rest of them then it's as much of a blind plunge for me to go for official settings as it would be for their original...

if all things are equal, why can't we also be urging players to ignore their dislikes?

all those things can happen and as long as the GM is still the one making the final calls of if something gets added or not in that last bullet point then they still have absolute power.

EDIT: i take the question back.

if they were a better writer maybe they would have made a novel about the world, but they weren't so they didn't, but they saved the ideas, they reused them, this doesn't mean they will railroad their players into a plot that they didn't end up writing, if tolkien hadn't ended up writing LOTR...

and some of us believe that those implied servants ought to exist in a more defined state than just being an in-potentia obstacle to be sprung on a player as a result of a failed check yeah, a lockpicking check and a stealth roll, but we wouldn't conflate those two into part of the same action...

bad luck is fine for climbing, bad luck is fine for lockpicking too, however, the existence of a cook is not a consequence of bad luck in the act of lockpicking, it is just a generalized 'bad thing' that you don't want to happen. bad luck in lockpicking would be having your picks break, or the...

following the discussion back a few responses to how it was originally introduced and used it seems to be being used to refer to when the players/characters are oddly ignorant and/or curious towards things that ought to be ordinary and commonplace to them in a setting where they have actually...

okay i admit that was my mistake, i read the part about 'no extra ASI at char gen' and saw you had added them directly to the array but ended up missing the part about no ASI from feats or level up either, in that context where the character's aren't gaining stats it's more understandable why...