D&D (2024) Half Race Appreciation Society: Half Elf most popular race choice in BG3

[Yaarel]

They can belong to any culture you like.

Just like today.

The core rules in the 2024 Players Handbook must explicitly welcome characters from more than one elven culture. Mechanics are necessary to actualize the narrative.

The historical D&D traditions are less than admirable on this point.

 

[Scribe]

The core rules in the 2024 Players Handbook must explicitly welcome characters from more than one elven culture.

The historical D&D traditions are less than admirable on this point.

You are free today, as you have been for the life of 5e to have your character come from any culture.

 

[Yaarel]

You are free today, as you have been for the life of 5e to have your character come from any culture.

The rules, the narrative, and the mechanics must be official and explicit, to attend to a character of multiple ethnicities, in order to end decades of problematic D&D traditions and the habitual continuation of them.

 

[Scribe]

The rules, the narrative, and the mechanics must be official and explicit, to attend to a character of multiple ethnicities, in order to end decades of problematic D&D traditions and the habitual continuation of them.

There is no problem, and there is no mechanism for Culture (capital C) within 5e or the UA play test material.

Species
Class
Background
Feats

Are your rules containers.

If you wish for there to be a cultural component beyond fluff/lore, you will have to provide it.

 

[Yaarel]

There is no problem, and there is no mechanism for Culture (capital C) within 5e or the UA play test material.

Species
Class
Background
Feats

Are your rules containers.

If you wish for there to be a cultural component beyond fluff/lore, you will have to provide it.

I said Drow/Sea, for example.

The Elf rules need to address the issue of incompatible ethnic mechanics, while eliminating the implication of racial segregation.

Ideally the mechanics themselves are miscible, so a character can feature mechanics from both parents who intermarry from different elven communities.

 

[Micah Sweet]

The 2024 Players Handbook must make clear the stats of an Elf whose parents come from different elven communities.

Or else. The WotC message will be, that different ethnicities arent allowed to intermarry each other.

The message and the mechanics need to be, that the various elven cultures can and do have children together.

Really? Has that been "the message" D&D has sending for the last 50 years?

 

[Micah Sweet]

The rules, the narrative, and the mechanics must be official and explicit, to attend to a character of multiple ethnicities, in order to end decades of problematic D&D traditions and the habitual continuation of them.

Thanks for helping me realize just how evil my favorite hobby for most of my life has been all this time. I am suitably chastened.

 

[Yaarel]

Really? Has that been "the message" D&D has sending for the last 50 years?

The D&D elven traditions are narratively and mechanically racist since the origin of D&D, including dark skin as a curse and the light skin quest for "purity", and the inability of a character to mechanically represent multiple elven cultures.

In year 2024, we will sadly commemorate 50 years of fantasy racism.

 

[Micah Sweet]

There is no problem, and there is no mechanism for Culture (capital C) within 5e or the UA play test material.

Species
Class
Background
Feats

Are your rules containers.

If you wish for there to be a cultural component beyond fluff/lore, you will have to provide it.

Or find someone else who does.

 

[Tony Vargas]

Really? Has that been "the message" D&D has sending for the last 50 years?

"Wizards Rule, Fighters Drool?"