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<blockquote data-quote="Deset Gled" data-source="post: 8646132" data-attributes="member: 7808"><p>I've sometimes felt that D&D should do a better job of making half-XXXXes unique based on what they're paired with.</p><p></p><p>For example, IMNSHO, if dwarves have Darkvision and humans have normal vision, a half-dwarf should have Low Light Vision. But a half-dwarf/half-orc should still have Darkvision. For another, if Elves are immune to sleep effects and human aren't, half-elves should have advantage against sleep effects, but half-elf/half-dwarves might still get full sleep immunity. You could get even more creative if you wanted. What if, due to a weird genetic fluke, half-elf/half-rock gnomes ended up being taller than both elves and gnomes? I think there's a lot of untapped potential there.</p><p></p><p>The one downside that I see to your idea is that it makes this harder. Making everything a template guarantees that the half races are are generic as possible. I'm not sure I like that. But it's not like WotC is really taking advantage of half-race uniqueness now, so I guess nothing would be lost, either.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deset Gled, post: 8646132, member: 7808"] I've sometimes felt that D&D should do a better job of making half-XXXXes unique based on what they're paired with. For example, IMNSHO, if dwarves have Darkvision and humans have normal vision, a half-dwarf should have Low Light Vision. But a half-dwarf/half-orc should still have Darkvision. For another, if Elves are immune to sleep effects and human aren't, half-elves should have advantage against sleep effects, but half-elf/half-dwarves might still get full sleep immunity. You could get even more creative if you wanted. What if, due to a weird genetic fluke, half-elf/half-rock gnomes ended up being taller than both elves and gnomes? I think there's a lot of untapped potential there. The one downside that I see to your idea is that it makes this harder. Making everything a template guarantees that the half races are are generic as possible. I'm not sure I like that. But it's not like WotC is really taking advantage of half-race uniqueness now, so I guess nothing would be lost, either. [/QUOTE]
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