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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8082001" data-attributes="member: 93670"><p>I've only had a chance to skim through, but some initial thoughts in no particular order</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Humans shed the free feat that makes them just as good or better at every other race's niche in favor of some interesting hooks on their endurance predator evolution. This is a great improvement</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I like that the races all give a visceral boon that will significantly impact how a given class will play at the table & think the power creep complaint someone made is off the mark</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The races seem at least somewhat genericized (ie shadow elves rather than drow) which is understandable & great because some of them have pretty heavy duty lore baggage attached to the name... but then thy hit almost every faerun trope on the way out of that lore laden tree. I'd love to see a few tweaks.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">instead of FR's zany steampunk gnomes maybe adopt some shades of eberron's ww2/coldwar-esque SS/KGB-like judge jury & executioner <a href="http://keith-baker.com/the-trust/" target="_blank">trust</a> secret policed civilization or <a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/MonsterHunterInternational" target="_blank">MHI's</a> straight up "Gangsta" gnome clan shading?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">All of FR's well established elves are represented pretty much as is but doesn't seem to be anything leaning towards the <a href="https://darksun.fandom.com/wiki/Elf" target="_blank">desert running elf</a> tribes of Athas, either of eberron's warlike <a href="https://eberron.fandom.com/wiki/Valenar" target="_blank">Valenar</a> elves, or eberron's necromancy involved <a href="https://eberron.fandom.com/wiki/Aerenal" target="_blank">Aerenal</a> elves.</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>edit:</strong> [USER=6987721]@badooga[/USER] mentioned orcs shifting back to fr's evil warrior raider antagonist role <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/level-up-playtest-document-1-origins.674594/post-8081957" target="_blank">earlier</a> & I agree it's a step back in terms of story telling & such especially with <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/level-up-playtest-document-1-origins.674594/post-8081957" target="_blank">wotc's racial insensitivity announcement</a>/plans to fix going forward</li> </ul></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 8082001, member: 93670"] I've only had a chance to skim through, but some initial thoughts in no particular order [LIST] [*]Humans shed the free feat that makes them just as good or better at every other race's niche in favor of some interesting hooks on their endurance predator evolution. This is a great improvement [*]I like that the races all give a visceral boon that will significantly impact how a given class will play at the table & think the power creep complaint someone made is off the mark [*]The races seem at least somewhat genericized (ie shadow elves rather than drow) which is understandable & great because some of them have pretty heavy duty lore baggage attached to the name... but then thy hit almost every faerun trope on the way out of that lore laden tree. I'd love to see a few tweaks. [LIST] [*]instead of FR's zany steampunk gnomes maybe adopt some shades of eberron's ww2/coldwar-esque SS/KGB-like judge jury & executioner [URL='http://keith-baker.com/the-trust/']trust[/URL] secret policed civilization or [URL='https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/MonsterHunterInternational']MHI's[/URL] straight up "Gangsta" gnome clan shading? [*]All of FR's well established elves are represented pretty much as is but doesn't seem to be anything leaning towards the [URL='https://darksun.fandom.com/wiki/Elf']desert running elf[/URL] tribes of Athas, either of eberron's warlike [URL='https://eberron.fandom.com/wiki/Valenar']Valenar[/URL] elves, or eberron's necromancy involved [URL='https://eberron.fandom.com/wiki/Aerenal']Aerenal[/URL] elves. [/LIST] [*][B]edit:[/B] [USER=6987721]@badooga[/USER] mentioned orcs shifting back to fr's evil warrior raider antagonist role [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/level-up-playtest-document-1-origins.674594/post-8081957']earlier[/URL] & I agree it's a step back in terms of story telling & such especially with [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/level-up-playtest-document-1-origins.674594/post-8081957']wotc's racial insensitivity announcement[/URL]/plans to fix going forward [/LIST] [/QUOTE]
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