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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MoonSong" data-source="post: 9112914" data-attributes="member: 6689464">That's precisely what I don't want. I'd be very happy if race/heritage/whatever was purely fluff with no mechanics, provided we'd still have fluff for half-elves/khorovar/whatever-politically-correct-naming-alternative-is-given. I'd be perfectly happy with no specific stats and half-elves being mechanically no different from humans or forced to be cobbled together with custom lineage as long as they have lore and a full write-up associated. (Heck, in 3.x half-elves were as vanilla as they'd come and it was fine). What I want is lore and visibility. Mix-and-match hybrid rules with no lore and no visibility (even lore without visibility -i.e. shoved into a sidebar as "an example"-) is the worst of the possible worlds for me. Hybrid rules being the only choice for a half-elf means we effectively have no half-elf, because they become invisible and drowned by the influx of the novelty brought by all combos under the sun, then after that the hybrid rules become a Charop tool, less likely to be allowed and I don't get to play any half-elf ever again. Let's not talk about ever seeing a half-elf NPC on any future adventure. Having to waste a feat on the right to half-elfness is a very close runner up for worst possible outcome.</blockquote>