D&D General Flipping Race And Background Altogether

[Reynard]

Except where they explicitly line up with real world weights and measures. Though I agree, it's an abstract fantasy game. I'm good with that. If anything, it's too worried about being concrete and not abstract enough.

Raw strength score Hafthor Bjornson, by a mile. They're both trained in athletics, but Phelps clearly has expertise in swimming...or we just acknowledge he's a bad example because of his several genetic advantages that give him basically the perfect body for swimming, larger lung capacity than most, and his body produces less lactic acid, amongst other things.

A strength roll is a strength roll.

 

[MGibster]

So, according to you, essentializing race is...good?

I'll say it's not inherently bad. We are talking about fictional beings here.

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

Sure. It doesn't quite explain how a 3 ft. 40 pound halfling is just as a strong as an 7 foot 250 pound Goliath but it's a start I guess.

It's because of culture. Halflings generally 3 ft because they are letting their children starve because they're too busy attending feasts, while Goliath are healthy, 7 fters because their society promotes good parenting and feeding the youngs, and protecting them from various debilitating child diseases by paying for the doctor instead of letting them survive if they are lucky. The halfling society has Nietzsche has a prominent pediatric author, after all.

 

[MGibster]

It's because of culture. Halflings generally 3 ft because they are letting their children starve because they're too busy attending feasts, while Goliath are healthy, 7 fters because their society promotes good parenting and feeding the youngs, and protecting them from various debilitating child diseases by paying for the doctor instead of letting them survive if they are lucky. The halfling society has Nietzsche has a prominent pediatric author, after all.

That makes sense. Halfings are really just human beings who grew up with rickets and pellagra.

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

That makes sense. Halfings are really just human beings who grew up with rickets and pellagra.

That explains the why there is no half-halfings. They're just humans so their children are humans. While there are half-elves and half-orcs because orcs, elves and humans males and females are the six sexes of the larger fantasy humanoid species.

 

[Scribe]

Recall, the 5e races can be any reallife human height and physique, and also, a player can roll height randomly using the height chart of any race

A convenient retcon yes.

 

[Reynard]

A convenient retcon yes.

Where did they say halflings can be 6'?

 

[Scribe]

Where did they say halflings can be 6'?

It's the current language where even 'small' typed races are 'the range of human sizes' or whatever inclusive non biased language they arrived upon.

 

[bedir than]

It's the current language where even 'small' typed races are 'the range of human sizes' or whatever inclusive non biased language they arrived upon.

That was in a UA, no book, right?

 

[Scribe]

That was in a UA, no book, right?

I don't have it on me, but if not witchlight, fizbans?