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I’d play a rogue if they were the best at skills. They have a higher floor but lore bards have a higher ceiling and I prefer the latter.

A combination of them being good at skills and their reputation (stereotypically at least) for not taking things too seriously. If bards had no magic, I feel like my bard could still get by and if there was something big he wanted magic-wise, like a Wish, he could potentially eventually get that...

The DIET arcane list is pretty restrictive, but I’ve come to the conclusion I’d still prefer bard over other classes even if they had no magic.

I’d say yes.

It’s better than True Polymorph in that it (your new race) can’t be dispelled. And there would be no new race for custom lineage creatures as there was no old race.

Per the 2e book of elves, elves were meticulously created over eons, whereas the other races were hastily and shabbily thrown together. If you go by that, there is no competition.

It ain’t braggin’ if it’s true.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

Elven bow

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.

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...

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...

That’d be cool. Yes, redemption would only be needed if they didn’t serve Lloth as well as they could have.

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.

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.

If she is alive, she stays. If dead, she”s a carried object and goes with.