D&D 5E Companion thread to 5E Survivor: Species

[Mind of tempest]

in regards to what?

 

[Vaalingrade]

ah, I have read some of those books, I assume the author is a terrible person?

Not that I know of, though the books got kind of sketch to me later on.

 

[Scribe]

in regards to what?

People down voting the people's champion, Variant Tiefling.

 

[Tonguez]

what is a lotus den halfling?.

short hippy druids

 

[CreamCloud0]

what is a lotus den halfling?

They're the druid-lite halfling, just copying their entry from the wiki:

Lotusden​

Long tied to the natural heart of the Lotusden Greenwood, these halflings have adapted to live synergistically with the chaotic laws of the wilds.

• Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 1.
• Children of the Woods. You know the Druidcraft Cantrip. At 3rd level, you can cast the Entangle spell once per long rest. At 5th level, you can cast Spike Growth spell once per long rest. These spells don't require the material components normally required. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for these spells.
• Timberwalk. Ability checks made to track you are at disadvantage and you can move through difficult terrain made of non-magical plants and overgrowth without expending extra movement

 

[Vaalingrade]

Created by someone who clearly didn't understand the connotations of 'Lotus Den'.

 

[Argyle King]

Or warforged. They're both pretty awesome.

Never really liked shifters because they're the lite version of the lycanthropes the devs refuse to let us just have.

Meanwhile, changelings are the version of doppelgangers we expect instead fo the weird grey aliens D&D feels they should be.

I don't have much feeling for Kalishtar as I've never interacted with the Quori stuff.

Sadly, Changelings have forever been ruined for me by an awful experience I had with a DM introducing me to Eberron for the first time.

Every NPC was potentially a gotcha moment of it really being the villain of the campaign. It got old.

Later, it was my unfortunate anecdotal experience that virtually every player of a changling I was in a game with tended toward playing some sort of pervy weirdo trying to manipulate NPCs into compromising romantic situations.

That and a few other things have lead to changlings being among the races I feel negatively toward.

 

[Mind of tempest]

They're the druid-lite halfling, just copying their entry from the wiki:

who even made them and what are they from?

Created by someone who clearly didn't understand the connotations of 'Lotus Den'.

Hellenic or Vedic derived lotus imagery? if form greatly concerning

 

[Mind of tempest]

short hippy druids

as opposed to non-hippy druids?

 

[Tonguez]

Created by someone who clearly didn't understand the connotations of 'Lotus Den'.

Thats exactly what I thought too - I was expecting halflings in a smokey bordello sharing dreams and wideeyed wonder, so disappointing to find druids instead