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<blockquote data-quote="RealAlHazred" data-source="post: 6749922" data-attributes="member: 25818">Originally posted by Tempest_Stormwind:Oh, so you're an absolutist. No amount of evidence can possibly change your mind - the position of the fundamentalist. By the way, good thing they're not powers. This is not 4e. This isn't even your spells-known list in 5e. This is far more limited than that. What part of this did you not read earlier?Without a point of reference for Eberron's economy, I'd be aiming at a nonexistent target, blindfolded. I also said that once such guidelines come out, I'll gladly re-evaluate everything, but if it's robust under the normal assumptions, it'll work in the meantime. Or, if you want a 4e example, dragonborn were part of the &quot;Nentir Vale / Points of Light&quot; setting, designed with that in mind. Doesn't stop them from being designed with the generic assumptions about 5e in mind, which causes them to work just fine in other settings (provided there isn't a thematic conflict - there would be in Eberron's Khorvaire due to how that setting handles dragons. But that's a fluff issue, not a crunch one). When a setting book comes out, it adjusts the standard assumptions but accounts for where those assumptions sit. (For instance, Eberron handles half-elves very differently from the core rules - they're not outsiders or ambassadors, they're a proud separate race with ego issues and a lot of money. But they still use exactly the same stats as normal half-elves, just for different narrative reasons. The game assumed the standard, world-less half-elf stats and wrote the setting around it.)  Also, I can tell you didn't read my last reply. You didn't say the magic word.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RealAlHazred, post: 6749922, member: 25818"] [b]Originally posted by Tempest_Stormwind:[/b] Oh, so you're an absolutist. No amount of evidence can possibly change your mind - the position of the fundamentalist. By the way, good thing they're not powers. This is not 4e. This isn't even your spells-known list in 5e. This is far more limited than that. What part of [i]this[/i] did you not read earlier? Without a point of reference for Eberron's economy, I'd be aiming at a nonexistent target, [i]blindfolded[/i]. I also said that once such guidelines come out, I'll gladly re-evaluate everything, but if it's robust under the normal assumptions, it'll work in the meantime. Or, if you want a 4e example, dragonborn were part of the "Nentir Vale / Points of Light" setting, designed with that in mind. Doesn't stop them from being [i]designed[/i] with the generic assumptions about 5e in mind, which causes them to work just fine in other settings (provided there isn't a thematic conflict - there would be in Eberron's Khorvaire due to how that setting handles dragons. But that's a fluff issue, not a crunch one). When a setting book comes out, it adjusts the standard assumptions but accounts for where those assumptions sit. (For instance, Eberron handles half-elves [i]very[/i] differently from the core rules - they're not outsiders or ambassadors, they're a proud separate race with ego issues and a lot of money. But they still use exactly the same stats as normal half-elves, just for different narrative reasons. The game assumed the standard, world-less half-elf stats and wrote the setting around it.) Also, I can tell you didn't read my last reply. You didn't say the magic word. [/QUOTE]

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