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<blockquote data-quote="Scribe" data-source="post: 9113877" data-attributes="member: 6807152"><p>Hah! Its all good. Its one of the hills upon which I would happily die but its not a productive turn of the conversation in my experience.</p><p></p><p>If we are honest, most of the 'deeper looks' at this thread are not going to, or simply cannot be, productive. Are Half Elves/Orcs a 'First among Equals'? Well yeah, kind of. They have legacy, they have history, and they are there, right now, in the 5e PHB which grants them an immediate relevancy that a Drago-Dwarf, will simply never have.</p><p></p><p>Is there a niche, a trope, a relevance, for the 'person part of and removed from both worlds'? Without question, and are those tropes or feelings of being seen, expressed by Half Elf and Half Orc? Without a doubt. Do we NEED Drago-Dwarf? I just dont see it.</p><p></p><p>Now, I'll never (ever) buy into the idea that the 5e Fantasy Species, equate with 'real world' Humans. They dont. Want diverse humanity? Well guess what? Its already there in the game. We have people, art, settings, from any and every human culture, and ethnicity as it is, and people still want Half Elf/Orc, because its a representation to them, the individual.</p><p></p><p>The whole Drago-Dwarf, is a mechanical gap, but its not a narrative/trope one, and its not a mechanical gap that personally I need filled, any more than Custom Lineage already could provide (I dont accept it anyway) so...why?</p><p></p><p>Half Elf/Orc exist for specific tropes and representation as is, we then have Custom Lineage for any 'I want to look like this but have these mechanics', or DM Fiat, hell someone let their player be a Unicorn recently, great, fantastic.</p><p></p><p>Regardless of any other consideration, the fact Half Elf/Orc have been representation for some players for decades, is reason enough to keep them.</p><p></p><p>And, they are right there in the 5e PHB, and this is not a new version/edition, so they should continue to exist.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scribe, post: 9113877, member: 6807152"] Hah! Its all good. Its one of the hills upon which I would happily die but its not a productive turn of the conversation in my experience. If we are honest, most of the 'deeper looks' at this thread are not going to, or simply cannot be, productive. Are Half Elves/Orcs a 'First among Equals'? Well yeah, kind of. They have legacy, they have history, and they are there, right now, in the 5e PHB which grants them an immediate relevancy that a Drago-Dwarf, will simply never have. Is there a niche, a trope, a relevance, for the 'person part of and removed from both worlds'? Without question, and are those tropes or feelings of being seen, expressed by Half Elf and Half Orc? Without a doubt. Do we NEED Drago-Dwarf? I just dont see it. Now, I'll never (ever) buy into the idea that the 5e Fantasy Species, equate with 'real world' Humans. They dont. Want diverse humanity? Well guess what? Its already there in the game. We have people, art, settings, from any and every human culture, and ethnicity as it is, and people still want Half Elf/Orc, because its a representation to them, the individual. The whole Drago-Dwarf, is a mechanical gap, but its not a narrative/trope one, and its not a mechanical gap that personally I need filled, any more than Custom Lineage already could provide (I dont accept it anyway) so...why? Half Elf/Orc exist for specific tropes and representation as is, we then have Custom Lineage for any 'I want to look like this but have these mechanics', or DM Fiat, hell someone let their player be a Unicorn recently, great, fantastic. Regardless of any other consideration, the fact Half Elf/Orc have been representation for some players for decades, is reason enough to keep them. And, they are right there in the 5e PHB, and this is not a new version/edition, so they should continue to exist. [/QUOTE]
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