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<blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 9286053" data-attributes="member: 7635">Create one set of stats that can describe every dog breed from Chihuahua to Great Dane. It's impossible. You couldn't even do that for each major subgroup of dogs (herding, hunting, toy, etc). You at best get a couple of overlapping traits like keen senses, but you absolutely couldn't even assign ability score mods to every breed of dog. Yet we think we can sum up all of the elves in D&amp;D with one set of stats and maybe 3-4 variants. One set of stats can cover Athasian elves and Eladrin.It's. Not. Possible.So yeah, we can do that, but it's going to require either making Athasian elves use the PHB elves or getting rid of Athas support. (Lather rinse repeat for Eberron, Krynn, Faerun, etc...) Or, you know, decide the concept of elves is fluid enough that there needs to be 49 flavors of elf and they all can't get hundreds of pages of lore.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Remathilis, post: 9286053, member: 7635"] Create one set of stats that can describe every dog breed from Chihuahua to Great Dane. It's impossible. You couldn't even do that for each major subgroup of dogs (herding, hunting, toy, etc). You at best get a couple of overlapping traits like keen senses, but you absolutely couldn't even assign ability score mods to every breed of dog. Yet we think we can sum up all of the elves in D&D with one set of stats and maybe 3-4 variants. One set of stats can cover Athasian elves and Eladrin. It's. Not. Possible. So yeah, we can do that, but it's going to require either making Athasian elves use the PHB elves or getting rid of Athas support. (Lather rinse repeat for Eberron, Krynn, Faerun, etc...) Or, you know, decide the concept of elves is fluid enough that there needs to be 49 flavors of elf and they all can't get hundreds of pages of lore. [/QUOTE]

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