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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 4317656" data-attributes="member: 18">No, it's a mock-warranter. Don't overdramatize things, Mourn, no-one said &quot;OMG D&amp;D SUX CUZ ELDRINS HAVE BAUBLE EYZ!&quot;.Humans are eye-centric creatures (ignoring severe autists etc.), and any creature that has shiny coloured eyes with no pupils, apart from just &quot;looking kinda dumb&quot; by human standards would be like trying to talk to someone who insisted on wearing tight mirrorshades 24/7 (if you were a teen in the late '80s/early '90s you probably met this guy).Clearly someone at WotC has a fetish for it, because it's been randomly added to the descriptions of two races not previously known for that, with no particular explanation (like, confusingly I believe normal Elves DO have pupils, is that right?).Also, don't confuse &quot;monsters I kill&quot; with &quot;races I play&quot;. I know it's easy to do given the large crossover between the two in 3.5E (and smaller and neater one in 4E), but just because we like stabbing a Beholder to death doesn't mean we think a bloke with christmas decorations for eyes is kewl. Stabbing Eladrins to death, on the other hand, that sounds like fun, and the MM provides abundantly in that regard.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 4317656, member: 18"] No, it's a mock-warranter. Don't overdramatize things, Mourn, no-one said "OMG D&D SUX CUZ ELDRINS HAVE BAUBLE EYZ!". Humans are eye-centric creatures (ignoring severe autists etc.), and any creature that has shiny coloured eyes with no pupils, apart from just "looking kinda dumb" by human standards would be like trying to talk to someone who insisted on wearing tight mirrorshades 24/7 (if you were a teen in the late '80s/early '90s you probably met this guy). Clearly [I]someone[/I] at WotC has a fetish for it, because it's been randomly added to the descriptions of two races not previously known for that, with no particular explanation (like, confusingly I believe normal Elves DO have pupils, is that right?). Also, don't confuse "monsters I kill" with "races I play". I know it's easy to do given the large crossover between the two in 3.5E (and smaller and neater one in 4E), but just because we like stabbing a Beholder to death doesn't mean we think a bloke with christmas decorations for eyes is kewl. Stabbing Eladrins to death, on the other hand, that sounds like fun, and the MM provides abundantly in that regard. [/QUOTE]

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