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

[Ruin Explorer]

Might be my accent but I've never pronounced the 'aas' in aasimar the same as 'ass'. Rather I've always pronounced it the same as 'as'.

But I can see how people with different dialects would pronounce it differently. 'Westcountry English' isn't exactly what people have in mind when picturing how words will be pronounced.

Oh my god Westc'ntry would pronounce it that way lol yeah, az-im-er even maybe if the dialect was deep enough. Received Pronunciation people I've always heard Ah-sigh-mar. Now I'm trying to think of Jafaican/MLE would say it Ass-e-mar maybe. I think the guy in my main group from further North says it like "Az-sim-ar", which is more like what is probably intended. Any Scots accent is going to absolutely wreck that "Ah" sound at the beginning.

Whereas everyone except the poor Germans and serious German speakers just says "Teefling" (Tea-fling) for Tiefling (aside from dear Lae'zel who says "Teeth-ling"). Which is a hell of a lot easier.

At least Drow only has two possible ways of saying it (like grow or like ow). I can never remember which is official.

No-one should listen to me on pronunciation anyway because I still habitually pronounce melee wrong. I just learned it wrong too hard as a child and didn't realize it was wrong until like, my very early 20s. No-one even ever corrected me! The curse of words you only know from books. One dear friend pronounced duchy "douche-y" and she wasn't even kidding, god bless her.

 

[fluffybunbunkittens]

At least Drow only has two possible ways of saying it (like grow or like ow).

Oh now you've done it

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Oh now you've done it

Uh oh are there different ways from those two?

 

[mamba]

Uh oh are there different ways from those two?

there is more than one, isn't that enough for a discussion?

 

[RareBreed]

As I posted in another thread, I don't follow WoTC and D&D that much, so I take it they are dropping half races (ancestries or whatever they are being called now). Has WoTC given a reason?

I'm half white, half asian. I see no problem whatsoever, especially in a fantasy world where there are biological and not just cultural differences.

 

[Frozen_Heart]

Oh my god Westc'ntry would pronounce it that way lol yeah, az-im-er even maybe if the dialect was deep enough. Received Pronunciation people I've always heard Ah-sigh-mar. Now I'm trying to think of Jafaican/MLE would say it Ass-e-mar maybe. I think the guy in my main group from further North says it like "Az-sim-ar", which is more like what is probably intended. Any Scots accent is going to absolutely wreck that "Ah" sound at the beginning.

Whereas everyone except the poor Germans and serious German speakers just says "Teefling" (Tea-fling) for Tiefling (aside from dear Lae'zel who says "Teeth-ling"). Which is a hell of a lot easier.

At least Drow only has two possible ways of saying it (like grow or like ow). I can never remember which is official.

No-one should listen to me on pronunciation anyway because I still habitually pronounce melee wrong. I just learned it wrong too hard as a child and didn't realize it was wrong until like, my very early 20s. No-one even ever corrected me! The curse of words you only know from books. One dear friend pronounced duchy "douche-y" and she wasn't even kidding, god bless her.

ngl I love how all the languages and even same languages dialects all say the words differently. I never realised that tiefling wasn't great to pronounce in german!

And I totally get you on melee. I pronounce it correctly now, but still read it in my head as 'mee-lee' as I thought that was correct for years.

(I'm also in the 'teeth-ling' camp)

 

[Corinnguard]

Aasimar is, like, a prime offender on that front, because it keeps coming up... and now I have to wonder if PF2remake going with Nephilim is going to open new-found horrors on how to mangle words.

It might if you happen to be someone who is familiar with Diablo's Nephalem. Nephalem

 

[Vaalingrade]

As I posted in another thread, I don't follow WoTC and D&D that much, so I take it they are dropping half races (ancestries or whatever they are being called now). Has WoTC given a reason?

No, they're dropping one, replacing the half-orc with the orc it always actually was, and also goliaths are going core.

 

[DEFCON 1]

I'm an 'AZ-i-MAR' pronouncer myself...

 

[FitzTheRuke]

As I posted in another thread, I don't follow WoTC and D&D that much, so I take it they are dropping half races (ancestries or whatever they are being called now). Has WoTC given a reason?

I'm half white, half asian. I see no problem whatsoever, especially in a fantasy world where there are biological and not just cultural differences.

I've seen a few people of mixed heritage post that they find the idea of dropping the "half" races as anything from absurd to offensive. While I think that I understand (in theory) why the naming convention of "half-x" to be less than ideal (the main point, I think, being "Why not the other half?" or "What about when the unnamed other half is not human?") I'm not sure that the solution "you only get to take after one parent!" is really ideal either.

What I have yet to see is any person of mixed heritage say, "Good thing they finally got rid of those offensive half-races!". I wonder if that idea exists, really.

Of course, it's also possible, I suppose, that the designers wanted to drop them for reasons other than the desire to remove offensive content, and that theory is just way off base.