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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 8694816" data-attributes="member: 87792">First we absolutely do rewrite elves. And add subrace after subrace to the point the race means just about nothing.Second dwarves are little more popular than halflings. If we look at <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/humans-fighters-and-life-domain-most-popular-on-d-d-beyond.666104/page-5" target="_blank">the 2019 subrace breakdown</a> then we find that 3.4% of characters are lightfoot halflings and another 1.3% stout halflings. If "no one" plays halflings then twice nowt is still nowt - and  no one plays either hill dwarfs or mountain dwarfs. So let's kick both of them out of the PHB because, despite the oodles of lore they are given  by your standards "no one" plays them.  4.7% Half Orcs - or almost exactly as popular as halflings. Who knows what halflings would have been if we had been force-fed them as much as we have dwarfs. Instead they get a place in the PHB and as mentioned about two lines in some adventures. And yet halflings are almost as popular as dwarfs. But I'm pretty sure that the only reason to throw halflings and gnomes out of the PHB is that roughly half of halfling concepts could easily be gnome concepts if halflings weren't there and roughly three quarters of gnome concepts could easily be be halfling concepts if gnomes weren't already there (especially now the mad engineers get a class so there's no need to add a ridiculous race). The insistance on cutting the bottom two especially when a lot of the concepts that they can fulfil overlap looks like a serious case of motivated reasoning, deliberately looking at where the halflings are and then setting the bar just over their heads.Can you give a non-arbitrary reason why the bottom two must be removed together. And why this is somehow better than removing the bottom one or the bottom four. There's an obvious reason to remove the bottom one, especially when concepts overlap. Because that way you don't get interference. And you don't get silliness by splitting a race into subraces and then removing all the subraces because they break about evenly, dwarf-style.</blockquote>

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