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<blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6435065" data-attributes="member: 37579">It's more than that. Even ignoring the silly motives for the change (gone over at length) and the massive lore retcon the abilities of the race don't fit.This was struggled over in the Dragonlance and Ravenloft communities, where there needed to be an elven wizard race (the Silvanesti and the Sithican). The elf mechanically did not fit (until Essentials) but the eladrin were not an adequate substitute as the ability to teleport made no sense. Most of the time the content was rewritten and new abilities added. The content paid money for failed to work. All that together is why the execution of the eladrin was bad. They rewrote 30 years of lore of one of the major races in the game. They rewrote the lore of a (lesser) monster. They did so assuming players would not be able to tell the difference in races. And the design of the race made it difficult to overlook to use while ignoring the lore.Regardless, I've said my peace here and get the feeling I'm fighting a proxy edition war, because I'm saying I'll of something kinda sorta related to 4th edition. So I'm calling my participation on the thread here. G'day all.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jester David, post: 6435065, member: 37579"] It's more than that. Even ignoring the silly motives for the change (gone over at length) and the massive lore retcon the abilities of the race don't fit. This was struggled over in the Dragonlance and Ravenloft communities, where there needed to be an elven wizard race (the Silvanesti and the Sithican). The elf mechanically did not fit (until Essentials) but the eladrin were not an adequate substitute as the ability to teleport made no sense. Most of the time the content was rewritten and new abilities added. The content paid money for failed to work. All that together is why the execution of the eladrin was bad. They rewrote 30 years of lore of one of the major races in the game. They rewrote the lore of a (lesser) monster. They did so assuming players would not be able to tell the difference in races. And the design of the race made it difficult to overlook to use while ignoring the lore. Regardless, I've said my peace here and get the feeling I'm fighting a proxy edition war, because I'm saying I'll of something kinda sorta related to 4th edition. So I'm calling my participation on the thread here. G'day all. [/QUOTE]

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