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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9799188" data-attributes="member: 6790260"><p>For my part, this is why I have always spoken for <em>key racial features</em>.</p><p></p><p>Dragonborn have dragon breath, faster healing, and a frenzied edge when the chips are down.</p><p></p><p>Tieflings have infernal wrath (what 5e diminished to merely <em>hellish rebuke</em>), amped-up damage against weakened foes, and the other side-effects of having infernal blood.</p><p></p><p>Eladrin--"high elves"--have teleportation, Trance, and resistance to mental effects, as well as breadth of training.</p><p></p><p>Elves--"wood elves"--have deadly accuracy, help their allies to perceive more, and navigate wild spaces with ease.</p><p></p><p>Etc. <em>These</em> are things that actually communicate something about Elf-ness and Eladrin-ness and Tiefling-ness and Dragonborn-ness. They communicate the physiology. When coupled with further stuff that actually <em>does</em> reference culture--Arkhosian, Turathi, Cendriannic, Nerathi, etc.--you can get a pretty cool understanding. Most dragonborn will be Arkhosian (or, rather, "Arkhosian-in-exile"). Many Tieflings, on the other hand, probably don't put nearly so much emphasis on the culture of Bael Turath, being more caught up with current-day stuff. They haven't mourned their empire quite the same way the Dragonborn did.</p><p></p><p>And yes, this is specific to PoLand. I get that. There are plenty of things you can do just as easily in FR (Dragonborn from Tymanther, Tieflings from Elturel, elves of various sorts from Myth Drannor or the like, etc.), and the almost-guaranteed upcoming Dark Sun book can have cultures from each of the various city-states. Point being, the PHB things are <em>way WAY inadequate</em> if the point is to express actual culture through 5.5e backgrounds. Speculating about books that haven't come out yet, or responding to books that literally only JUST came out, won't be factored into this because...I literally could not have had any chance to learn from/about them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 9799188, member: 6790260"] For my part, this is why I have always spoken for [I]key racial features[/I]. Dragonborn have dragon breath, faster healing, and a frenzied edge when the chips are down. Tieflings have infernal wrath (what 5e diminished to merely [I]hellish rebuke[/I]), amped-up damage against weakened foes, and the other side-effects of having infernal blood. Eladrin--"high elves"--have teleportation, Trance, and resistance to mental effects, as well as breadth of training. Elves--"wood elves"--have deadly accuracy, help their allies to perceive more, and navigate wild spaces with ease. Etc. [I]These[/I] are things that actually communicate something about Elf-ness and Eladrin-ness and Tiefling-ness and Dragonborn-ness. They communicate the physiology. When coupled with further stuff that actually [I]does[/I] reference culture--Arkhosian, Turathi, Cendriannic, Nerathi, etc.--you can get a pretty cool understanding. Most dragonborn will be Arkhosian (or, rather, "Arkhosian-in-exile"). Many Tieflings, on the other hand, probably don't put nearly so much emphasis on the culture of Bael Turath, being more caught up with current-day stuff. They haven't mourned their empire quite the same way the Dragonborn did. And yes, this is specific to PoLand. I get that. There are plenty of things you can do just as easily in FR (Dragonborn from Tymanther, Tieflings from Elturel, elves of various sorts from Myth Drannor or the like, etc.), and the almost-guaranteed upcoming Dark Sun book can have cultures from each of the various city-states. Point being, the PHB things are [I]way WAY inadequate[/I] if the point is to express actual culture through 5.5e backgrounds. Speculating about books that haven't come out yet, or responding to books that literally only JUST came out, won't be factored into this because...I literally could not have had any chance to learn from/about them. [/QUOTE]
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