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<blockquote data-quote="DammitVictor" data-source="post: 8349771" data-attributes="member: 6750908"><p>Yeah, you're right. I'm going to go back and revise this to be less confrontational. <strong>EDIT: </strong>I'd be interested in hearing your take, now that I'm not trying to tell you how much I'm not.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And the fact you consider this a <em>feature</em>, and not an active detriment to the tone of any half-serious campaign, is why I'm so adamant that trying to separate "race" and "culture" (in general) and the custom lineage rules in Tasha (in specific) are <em>bad ideas</em> that are constantly being compounded by the effort to divorce every axis of character identity from every other axis of character identity.</p><p></p><p>In HARP, a game I love and spent several years (fruitlessly) developign for, every race came with three free racial talents and characters could trade up to two of them away (for other racial talents) to represent mixed heritage. And sure, those rules <em>could</em> have enabled players to play half-elves and half-gryths (I think? Been awhile.), but in practice they were mostly used the exact same way people are discussing using Tasha: to pick whatever racial talents were most useful to their character build, with little to no regard for what those mechanical elements were supposed to represent.</p><p></p><p>Personally, I think separating race and class and introducing the half-elf and half-orc races were among the worst design decisions that went into AD&D.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitVictor, post: 8349771, member: 6750908"] Yeah, you're right. I'm going to go back and revise this to be less confrontational. [B]EDIT: [/B]I'd be interested in hearing your take, now that I'm not trying to tell you how much I'm not. And the fact you consider this a [I]feature[/I], and not an active detriment to the tone of any half-serious campaign, is why I'm so adamant that trying to separate "race" and "culture" (in general) and the custom lineage rules in Tasha (in specific) are [I]bad ideas[/I] that are constantly being compounded by the effort to divorce every axis of character identity from every other axis of character identity. In HARP, a game I love and spent several years (fruitlessly) developign for, every race came with three free racial talents and characters could trade up to two of them away (for other racial talents) to represent mixed heritage. And sure, those rules [I]could[/I] have enabled players to play half-elves and half-gryths (I think? Been awhile.), but in practice they were mostly used the exact same way people are discussing using Tasha: to pick whatever racial talents were most useful to their character build, with little to no regard for what those mechanical elements were supposed to represent. Personally, I think separating race and class and introducing the half-elf and half-orc races were among the worst design decisions that went into AD&D. [/QUOTE]
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