D&D (2024) Do you think they will add more races to PHB2024 to make up for dropping other stuff?

[Ruin Explorer]

maybe it’s my German background

Yeah the only people I know who don't like the word Tiefling are all either Germans or were German-speakers before the word Tiefling was introduced to them. I guess it's linguistically obnoxious in German in the same way Aasimar is in English.

 

[Corinnguard]

I mean, if nothing else, Tiefling doesn't have an English pronunciation that tends to make people start it with the word "ass"... that's pretty much objectively superior lol.

The correction pronunciation for Aasimar is AH-sim-ar. The word ass is pronounced quiet differently. I think the problem here is some people think Aasimar is pronounced Ass-im-ar. It's like the word invalid, which can be pronounced in two different ways. Pronounced one way Invalid refers to an ill person, pronounced another way it refers to something that's not valid, not truthful and not in keeping with the law.

 

[Mirrorrorrim]

And it will lag behind and be increasingly forgotten as 2024 takes the position of 'first amongst equals' in the eyes of the community.

I'm sure this goes without saying, but there it is anyway.

It will never be forgotten by those who want them. Never. And they will always be available for those people.

If someone new to the game wants to play a half-elf, they will be able to using the SRD/DDB/PH14/3rd party source. It's the exact same story for people who want to play a Wizard or Cleric subclass that was culled from the 2024 PH due to space.

It's a molehill. Not a mountain.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

The correction pronunciation for Aasimar is AH-sim-ar. The word ass is pronounced quiet differently. I think the problem here is some people think Aasimar is pronounced Ass-im-ar. It's like the word invalid, which can be pronounced in two different ways. Pronounced one way Invalid refers to an ill person, pronounced another way it refers to something that's not valid, not truthful and not in keeping with the law.

You understand how this shows the problem, right? If it's a fantasy word, and it's not obvious how to pronounce it, people will pronounce it a different way. Double-a is not a valid construction in English, and even the names and very small number of adopted words (there are like, three of the later) don't have a consistent pronunciation of the double-a.

Even your "correct" pronunciation doesn't correlate with what I've been previously told was the "correct" pronunciation, and the one I've heard people use - Ah-sigh-mar.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

It will never be forgotten by those who want them. Never. And they will always be available for those people.

If someone new to the game wants to play a half-elf, they will be able to using the SRD/DDB/PH14/3rd party source. It's the exact same story for people who want to play a Wizard or Cleric subclass that was culled from the 2024 PH due to space.

It's a molehill. Not a mountain.

I don't think it'll be as simple as that, because so many existing characters, including some Critical Role fan favourites are Half-Elves.

I think WotC's refusal to engage with this in a constructive way, whilst, I get the motivations and belief that they're "doing the right thing", is going to come back and bite them in the longer-term.

It's not a molehill. It's also probably not a mountain, but there are things in-between the two.

 

[mamba]

I don't think it'll be as simple as that, because so many existing characters, including some Critical Role fan favourites are Half-Elves.

there are still Half-Elves

I think WotC's refusal to engage with this in a constructive way, whilst, I get the motivations and belief that they're "doing the right thing", is going to come back and bite them in the longer-term

I guess we will see, no idea how big an issue this really is

It's not a molehill. It's also probably not a mountain, but there are things in-between the two.

dirt piles? actual hills?

 

[Corinnguard]

You understand how this shows the problem, right? If it's a fantasy word, and it's not obvious how to pronounce it, people will pronounce it a different way. Double-a is not a valid construction in English, and even the names and very small number of adopted words (there are like, three of the later) don't have a consistent pronunciation of the double-a.

Even your "correct" pronunciation doesn't correlate with what I've been previously told was the "correct" pronunciation, and the one I've heard people use - Ah-sigh-mar.

I do. The problem might also be a dialect issue. Each dialect of English (of which there are 150 of them around in the world) has a different way of pronouncing certain words. While Aasimar is a fantasy word, it's going to be pronounced differently by English speaking people in different parts of the world where it is spoken.

Maybe we need to have a poll on names we could call them by?

 

[Umbran]

Posts like the one you responded to make me wonder if the poster in question just doesn't like D&D in general.

Mod Note:
Don't. Make. It. Personal.
Please.
Thank you.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

And the pronuntiation by no-English speakers.

I imagine my aasimars as the Cincerella of D&D species. They are almost Disney princess, but they are forgotten while the evil tielfling stepsister are the stars of the party. They are the perfect victims of the tal poppies syndrome. Rejected by the rest because they are too "perfect"

I suspect we are going to see news about the ardlings. These seem too much to have been designed to sell toys or like this.

 

[Corinnguard]

Tall Poppies syndrome? looks it up on Wikipedia. Never heard of that term before, it does make sense though.