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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kzach" data-source="post: 4662314" data-attributes="member: 56189">You're basing your interpretation of an entire sub-race off one character in one setting. If they've based half-elves off of him, then they've done the race an injustice. The race has the possibility of being far more interesting and diverse than this.The current way they are built pigeon-holes them into a role that just doesn't suit the potential of the race. What about their origin speaks towards being a hardy people-person? Given that they have no culture of their own and adopt all their belief systems from whichever culture dominates in their upbringing, then why is it that every half-elf turns out the same?'That type of pigeon-holing is fine with races that have a dominant culture, but there is no half-elf nation or culture to draw from for these similarities. So the best solution isn't to force-feed some romantic notion of all half-elves as happy-happy-joy-joy narcissists, but to rather draw on what information we have about them that is similar to all of them.Dexterity is a dominant trait of all elven subraces, so really that should've been a no-brainer. Dilettante suits the race well because of the requirement for all half-elves to adapt to two cultures. The extra language also suits this very well. And the +2 to any stat reflects the chaotic nature of their upbringing since they could really go in any direction.I think you're underestimating the power of an extra at-will, feat, skill and +1 bonus to defences. And it is not more versatile than a human. It is exactly as versatile as a human as far as stats go because only one bonus is flexible.None of the reasons you've given prove that it's better than any other race. In fact, even with the flexible +2, it's still slightly underpowered in my opinion, because that flexibility isn't really power, it's simply greater variety of choice for the initial character creation. Once done, the half-elf as presented here has less power and options than other races.</blockquote>

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