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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DMZ2112" data-source="post: 6491257" data-attributes="member: 78752">I don't like the idea of racial backgrounds any more than I like the idea of racial classes.  A racial subclass?  Sure, I can see that.  Modifying an eldritch knight to get a bladesinger, sort of thing.  But that would not prevent a demihuman character from being a champion or battlemaster if that's what they wanted to do.  Backgrounds, like classes, should be sufficiently broad to incorporate any race (or class, for that matter).I want to be clear that the degree to which demihumans are alien is /wholly/ a setting conceit and is not mandated by the core rules in either direction, although the official D&D settings do not generally characterize demihumans as particularly alien.  If it is important /to your setting/ that demihumans be alien, then I think you need to start working on a whole /set/ of racial backgrounds, subclasses, and feats to accommodate the races of your setting.  I'm not saying you shouldn't force players to conform to your setting -- that is part of dungeon mastery and worldbuilding.  It's a prerogative.  But be warned that if you take choices away from them that they would have when playing a human character, you'd better be giving them new choices to replace the lost ones, or you're going to end up wasting a lot of effort on detailed demihuman fluff that no one at the table wants to engage because the rent is too damn high.Warforged are a great example of how D&D does not typically engage demihuman alienation.  By rights, you are correct, the warforged /should/ be ultra-weird, but they're not -- Eberron is pretty clear that they're just, y'know, dudes.  Manufactured, metal dudes.I'm not sold that this is a positive.</blockquote>

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