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<blockquote data-quote="MoonSong" data-source="post: 9029521" data-attributes="member: 6689464">I've made my feelings about this more clear somewhere else on these boards, but in short.It is erasure, you no longer have the fictional construct of people who are different admixtures of humans and elves but who share a culture and form an ethnicity on their own. Instead of them forming a group, now they no longer are a default game construct that demands an answer form each campaign and game. Now we have an atomized bunch of combos with nothing in common, and -worse- which are pure fluff without any mechanical backing. So instead of them being a distinct people, all mixed characters are reduced to one-offs disconnected from the grater world. And by lacking mechanics attached to them, I'm at the mercy of the DM and others just disregarding my choices, because fluff without backing is very easily ignored.The naming convention is unfortunate -and I'm more than open to changing it-. I'm not against the opening of the floodgates to any combo being possible, but the loss of defaults just takes away a lot of it .For context, my ethnic group consists on basically being mixed. We all are the admixture of two major ethnic groupings of people. I find myself very easily projecting my ethnic identity into half-elves. Particularly as I find myself more obviously mixed than most of my peers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MoonSong, post: 9029521, member: 6689464"] I've made my feelings about this more clear somewhere else on these boards, but in short. It is erasure, you no longer have the fictional construct of people who are different admixtures of humans and elves but who share a culture and form an ethnicity on their own. Instead of them forming a group, now they no longer are a default game construct that demands an answer form each campaign and game. Now we have an atomized bunch of combos with nothing in common, and -worse- which are pure fluff without any mechanical backing. So instead of them being a distinct people, all mixed characters are reduced to one-offs disconnected from the grater world. And by lacking mechanics attached to them, I'm at the mercy of the DM and others just disregarding my choices, because fluff without backing is very easily ignored. The naming convention is unfortunate -and I'm more than open to changing it-. I'm not against the opening of the floodgates to any combo being possible, but the loss of defaults just takes away a lot of it . For context, my ethnic group consists on basically being mixed. We all are the admixture of two major ethnic groupings of people. I find myself very easily projecting my ethnic identity into half-elves. Particularly as I find myself more obviously mixed than most of my peers. [/QUOTE]

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