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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MoogleEmpMog" data-source="post: 3841692" data-attributes="member: 22882">Personally, I don't have a problem with the number of elves.  Lots of people must like them, or else why include them?  If lots of people like them, it makes sense to have them around.Then again, I don't expect to use the core book races AT ALL except in Spelljammer games, where half-elves obviously appear.  I don't expect D&D's core books to be 100% useful content, or even 75% useful content. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> EQ 1 and 2 are basically not relevant at this point; each has a number of subscribers roughly equal to the sales numbers I've seen projected for a D&D 3.5 supplement like a Complete book.  Vanguard I can't seem to find numbers on, but certainly I haven't heard it's exactly nipping at WoW's heels.  Does Lord of the Rings Online allow for half-elves?In any case, this leaves out the 800 lbs. gorillas, World of Warcraft (elves but no half-elves) and Final Fantasy (no elves).  To say nothing of pretty much the entire second tier comprised of games like the BioWare games (no elves), other major MMORPGs (varies, of course), the Suikodens (elves but no half-elves), the Wild ARMses (renamed elves, no half-elves), the Shadow Heartses (no elves), etc.It's not a 'spread' at all.  It's a small subset of a subgenre.</blockquote>

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