CleverNickName
Limit Break Dancing
(laughs in Tasha's Custom Lineage)
D&D 5E Companion thread to 5E Survivor: Species
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EzekielRaiden
Legend
I mean...my initial downvotes went to human options, and after that, halflings. I was pretty consistent in who I was opposing.
Tonguez
A suffusion of yellow
Yet halfling remains.
Actually once Aasimar goes we down to the 1978 PHB options as the final 5, which is kinda funny
EzekielRaiden
Legend
Not really. More extremely, painfully disappointing that Tradition Uber Alles wins. Again.
Because creativity and novelty are dead I guess. Really shouldn't have expected anything else from a survivor thread.
Mind of tempest
(he/him)
same boat nothing of the absolute basic options means anything to me as they are boring over done or get cut from setting for a reason.
Xamnam
Loves Your Favorite Game
I don't think that's necessarily true. Just because I was rooting for Satyrs doesn't mean I'd be sad with a halfling or dwarvish victory. If you condensed down the variants into one option in the original list, I probably liked a good 70% of the options. There's really only one out of the top ten I didn't want to see.
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RoughCoronet0
Dragon Lover
It isn’t even just the fact that non-traditional races were voting against each other and not the Demi-human ones. Many were voting against them.
It’s the fact that no one was voting together against a single option. All the votes got spread around, which made it easier for the Demi- humans to to survive the down voting.
I ended up switch me down vote to Gnomes from Dwarves because no one was downvoting them and I felt like my vote was wasted as I continued to watch the Dwarves climb unimpeded. But multiple people started targeting the Gnomes and vocally spoke of doing as such, so I felt like my vote would actually help in knocking something down. And it did.
Now there is only one race left that I am ok with winning. I suppose we will see if I get to vote again Monday morning.
DND_Reborn
The High Aldwin
Not surprising at all really (nor funny IMO
) since those are the BEST races for D&D. Just about everything else is monsters or aliens.
DND_Reborn
The High Aldwin
Once the half-orc is gone, we'll almost have the LotR crew (sans human...). Well, sort of... subraces might be a bit off.
CleverNickName
Limit Break Dancing
Almost a hundred other options were eliminated to arrive at our Top Five: Hill Dwarf, Wood Elf, Half-Elf, Half-Orc, and Lightfoot Halfling! And the scores are too tightly locked to really predict which one will be eliminated next, let alone which one will Survive!
I've played all five of these in the past, and they are solid choices. I think my half-elf sorcerer was the most successful, but the half-orc barbarian was the most powerful and the halfling cleric was the most fun.
I've played all five of these in the past, and they are solid choices. I think my half-elf sorcerer was the most successful, but the half-orc barbarian was the most powerful and the halfling cleric was the most fun.
Tonguez
A suffusion of yellow
Not surprising at all really (nor funny IMO
They’re also the easiest to reskin as something else. Satyr can be a Halfling with a jump feat, Gith, Teiflings, Genesi are elves, orcs and hobgoblins are variant human.
Custom Lineage for the win
Scribe
Legend
Why reskin things, when you can have actual archetypes? A Satyr is not a Halfling. Tieflings are anything but Elves or Orcs, or Hobgoblins.
The various options exist because they mean something, tropes matter. Custom Lineage is just a grab bag.
DND_Reborn
The High Aldwin
Or you just leave them as they are and stop having monsters and aliens as characters...
LOL, yeah, right.
Mind of tempest
(he/him)
ah so we should have no playable races then as everything can be defined under monster or alien.Or you just leave them as they are and stop having monsters and aliens as characters...
LOL, yeah, right.
DND_Reborn
The High Aldwin
Not at all. You know what I mean.
CleverNickName
Limit Break Dancing
Of course tropes matter. But tropes aren't game mechanics. You can copy and paste all the lore, all the artwork, and all the descriptive text of the Satyr onto the halfling, adjust the mechanics per Tasha's, and presto: you have a Satyr.
Custom Lineage is a toolkit... the presumption that you need to buy a new book to get a(nother) new flavor of Halfling is the "grab."
The Custom Lineage rules aren't prefect, though. My campaign's satyr will have slightly different mechanics than someone else's (even thoug the art and lore and descriptions are identical.) I think that's closer to how biodiversity and genetics behave IRL, but some people need them to be identical (especially for standardized play, like AL.)
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Scribe
Legend
Thing is, those packages of mechanics, art, and lore/fluff, are exactly what I'm looking to pay for.
If it's all just toolkits, I can make my own.
Mind of tempest
(he/him)
it is also a poorly developed tool kit, the swiss-army knife is useful but not as good as the proper tools.
CleverNickName
Limit Break Dancing
Oh I agree completely. It's a retrofit... they should have started with the toolkit, and added the examples later. It's backwards.
On the other hand, sometimes you don't need a $500 Dewalt power drill. Sometimes, all you need is the awl punch on your Swiss army knife. I'm playing D&D with my friends, not running a Twitch stream for ten thousand viewers.
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