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<blockquote data-quote="Scholar &amp;amp; Brutalman" data-source="post: 3912892" data-attributes="member: 33642">I think the tinker/artificier gnome is a good identity, but it has a mechanical problem - if you present a race that can make lots of cool toys, you need to provide rules for how players can make those cool toys. I suspect that might be why the full gnome write-up will be in a later PHB, along with an Artifice power source.I'm puzzled as to why the half-elf seems to have made a return since Races and Classes, which reportedly doesn't mention them at all. There's another race with no flavour - where did the &quot;inspirational leader&quot; stuff come from? As for half-orc, the &quot;child of rape&quot; thing was always a bother to me (though why that's rarely mentioned with half-elves I don't know), and the race didn't have much going for it otherwise.I think a new edition is exactly the right time for underperforming game elements to be removed from core, so I approve of Wizards' changes. Why they seem to have put the half-elf back in though...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Scholar & Brutalman, post: 3912892, member: 33642"] I think the tinker/artificier gnome is a good identity, but it has a mechanical problem - if you present a race that can make lots of cool toys, you need to provide rules for how players can make those cool toys. I suspect that might be why the full gnome write-up will be in a later PHB, along with an Artifice power source. I'm puzzled as to why the half-elf seems to have made a return since Races and Classes, which reportedly doesn't mention them at all. There's another race with no flavour - where did the "inspirational leader" stuff come from? As for half-orc, the "child of rape" thing was always a bother to me (though why that's rarely mentioned with half-elves I don't know), and the race didn't have much going for it otherwise. I think a new edition is exactly the right time for underperforming game elements to be removed from core, so I approve of Wizards' changes. Why they seem to have put the half-elf back in though... [/QUOTE]

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