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<blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 8696423" data-attributes="member: 87792"><p>You missed two words in that sentence. They are not compelling enough to be played <em>by you</em>. They are compelling enough to be played <em>by the groups I play with</em> and, more influentially <em>by Critical Role</em>.</p><p></p><p>They are somewhere around 5% of all characters. That's a small niche but it is a definite niche of characters that are being played.</p><p></p><p>Because you said that two was what you wanted. The claim is that you pick two because two is what allows you to remove halflings. And that your goal is not to remove individual races but to remove halflings because you personally dislike them.</p><p></p><p>The issue at that point becomes that your goal is nakedly obvious. When it becomes clear that there are two races with a better case for removal than halflings, after swearing blind that it has always been two races, you admit that it is entirely arbitrary</p><p></p><p>Please stop changing what your point "has always been". We have memories. You were advocating mixing things up by removing two races. When it was pointed out that the two races would mean half-orcs and gnomes it suddenly becomes not the bottom two but "make the PHB reflect what is actually being played". You are moving the goalposts here.</p><p></p><p>As you do not even respect your own arguments there is no point continuing this. Goodbye</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Neonchameleon, post: 8696423, member: 87792"] You missed two words in that sentence. They are not compelling enough to be played [I]by you[/I]. They are compelling enough to be played [I]by the groups I play with[/I] and, more influentially [I]by Critical Role[/I]. They are somewhere around 5% of all characters. That's a small niche but it is a definite niche of characters that are being played. Because you said that two was what you wanted. The claim is that you pick two because two is what allows you to remove halflings. And that your goal is not to remove individual races but to remove halflings because you personally dislike them. The issue at that point becomes that your goal is nakedly obvious. When it becomes clear that there are two races with a better case for removal than halflings, after swearing blind that it has always been two races, you admit that it is entirely arbitrary Please stop changing what your point "has always been". We have memories. You were advocating mixing things up by removing two races. When it was pointed out that the two races would mean half-orcs and gnomes it suddenly becomes not the bottom two but "make the PHB reflect what is actually being played". You are moving the goalposts here. As you do not even respect your own arguments there is no point continuing this. Goodbye [/QUOTE]
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