D&D (2024) Does the concept of subspecies of Elves come across as racist to you

[Micah Sweet]

Where were the rules for gnoll PCs in AD&D 1E?

2e's Complete Book of Humanoids had them I think.

 

[Alzrius]

2e's Complete Book of Humanoids had them I think.

Yeah, but that was for 2E; 1E was fairly light on monsters as PCs.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Yeah, but that was for 2E; 1E was fairly light on monsters as PCs.

That's true, but I've always treated 1e and 2e as a continuous stream of great content, so that difference is no difference to me.

 

[Bedrockgames]

2e's Complete Book of Humanoids had them I think.

The bane of my highschool GMing years

 

[Remathilis]

Who cares? Options are good. Taking away options is bad.

I'll tell my DM that when I go to play an orc in Dragonlance.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I'll tell my DM that when I go to play an orc in Dragonlance.

Settings can restrict what they want. The game in general shouldn't remove options.

 

[Cadence]

https://www.enworld.org/threads/have-you-ever-had-a-gnoll-pc.700102/

 

[Scars Unseen]

I prefer to take the word "alignment" more literally and treat it closer to its fantasy roots where good and evil (or law and chaos if we're going Moorcockian on the topic) are cosmic extremes that mortals can be (but rarely are) aligned with. I would even say (in my own campaigns) that this is something that can happen entirely without your (the character's, not the player's) consent. Example: In the movie adaptation of Constantine, John Constantine is doomed to hell after he dies due to a (temporarily successful) suicide attempt as a child. In defiance, he fights against demonic intrusion as searches for a loophole that might help him escape his fate.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I prefer to take the word "alignment" more literally and treat it closer to its fantasy roots where good and evil (or law and chaos if we're going Moorcockian on the topic) are cosmic extremes that mortals can be (but rarely are) aligned with. I would even say (in my own campaigns) that this is something that can happen entirely without your (the character's, not the player's) consent. Example: In the movie adaptation of Constantine, John Constantine is doomed to hell after he dies due to a (temporarily successful) suicide attempt as a child. In defiance, he fights against demonic intrusion as searches for a loophole that might help him escape his fate.

That is my preference as well. It's more old school anyway.

 

[Corinnguard]

There is a Gnoll heritage in Level Up. Gnoll | Level Up The heritage is from Adventures in ZEITGEIST setting.