Races & Classes details from the WotC boards

[Stone Dog]

So humans correspond to White, dwarves to Red, elves to Green.

Dragonborn may be a red/white mix, halflings sound blue/green and tieflings may be some sort of black?



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: runs :

 

[Wormwood]

This far into the thread and no mention of the kender as main inspiration for 4E halflings? When coupled with the exclusion of gnomes as core race, I predict much rending of garments over this tidbit.

I need more supporting details to come to any conclusion.

3e did a decent job of Kenderizing halflings. The fact that they're not going in the other direction and Hobbitizing them is good enough news for me.

 

[Aage]

So humans correspond to White, dwarves to Red, elves to Green.
Dragonborn may be a red/white mix, halflings sound blue/green and tieflings may be some sort of black?

With my limited knowledge of magic I would say dwarfs are white actually (law, order, tradition... right?). Only connection to red really is the mountain thing?

 

[Wormwood]

Likes:

Eladrin / Elf split
No Darkvision
Itinerant Halflings
Fallen Dragonborn empire
Dragonborn as a true race, not a 'template'

 

[TerraDave]

I was thinking something along these lines this morning:

Dragonborn...great empire were in desert

And to see it here is...sort of annoying...

 

[Simia Saturnalia]

So humans correspond to White, dwarves to Red, elves to Green.

Dragonborn may be a red/white mix, halflings sound blue/green and tieflings may be some sort of black?



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: runs :

Don't run too far.

I think I'm on your side.

From those tasty, simple feats to this? :\

That homeland thing feels really tacked on. Once you define humans into a niche alongside the other races, instead of adaptable and nicheless, you...

....oh, god...

You remind me of an RTS game. I love to play them, but that feel of 'separate but equal!' intruding on the mechanics...

 

[ferratus]

Didn't I hear somewhere that there wasn't going to be favoured classes in 4e?

 

[Wormwood]

Didn't I hear somewhere that there wasn't going to be favoured classes in 4e?

The term 'favored class' probably means something different in 4e.

 

[Aage]

Didn't I hear somewhere that there wasn't going to be favoured classes in 4e?

Not as a mechanic, but as fluff; At least that's my interpretation.

 

[JohnSnow]

Didn't I hear somewhere that there wasn't going to be favoured classes in 4e?

You did. And if you read what was written, you'll notice that "favored class" was the poster's terminology, not the book's. What the book does is list racial abilities and fluff text that imply what class each race is particularly well-suited for. That's all.

So it isn't really "favored class" as we know it. Make sense?