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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 8761684" data-attributes="member: 11760"><p>It's the sign of trying to please people who post "I don't get halflings/gnomes" threads. TSR and WotC have always had the somewhat bizarre notion that every race needs to work for every player. (The people who create those threads often have a similar view.)</p><p></p><p>Here's the thing: I really don't give a crap about elves. Rings of Power earns a lot of points with me for making elfy elfishness compelling to me for the first time since middle school. But I am well aware that other people <em>adore</em> elves and have no need or desire to post threads demanding they be taken out of the PHB or be completely reworked in a way that will please me but alienate the existing elf-lovers.</p><p></p><p>Why halflings and gnomes have to be remade to please people who -- spoiler alert -- still won't play them anyway has always been a mystery to me. What 4E did to halflings and gnomes were among the reasons I noped out of that edition.</p><p></p><p>Halflings are fantasy (in every sense) English peasants. They occupy a totally different conceptual space than gnomes, who are the magical little people.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 8761684, member: 11760"] It's the sign of trying to please people who post "I don't get halflings/gnomes" threads. TSR and WotC have always had the somewhat bizarre notion that every race needs to work for every player. (The people who create those threads often have a similar view.) Here's the thing: I really don't give a crap about elves. Rings of Power earns a lot of points with me for making elfy elfishness compelling to me for the first time since middle school. But I am well aware that other people [I]adore[/I] elves and have no need or desire to post threads demanding they be taken out of the PHB or be completely reworked in a way that will please me but alienate the existing elf-lovers. Why halflings and gnomes have to be remade to please people who -- spoiler alert -- still won't play them anyway has always been a mystery to me. What 4E did to halflings and gnomes were among the reasons I noped out of that edition. Halflings are fantasy (in every sense) English peasants. They occupy a totally different conceptual space than gnomes, who are the magical little people. [/QUOTE]
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