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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8819836" data-attributes="member: 6801228">See my response to Faolyn where I answer this exact questionSee my response to Faolyn, just because you can redefine human to include easily accessible reincarnation doesn't mean it is a fact of humans. Heck, think about this for a moment. No elf needs &quot;evidence&quot; of elves reincarnating. They trance, they visit their past lives. They don't need to prove it to other elves, it is a fact. They don't need special rituals, or speaking in tongues, or medicinal herbs and years of special training. They just live their natural lives.Really? So, you can completely dismiss utterly inhuman experiences because... you weren't following the changes in lore? That doesn't seem like a very compelling case.Extreme cognitive abilities ARE the default of gnomes. Yes, it would be like saying every human has Batman's capabilities, that is why it is a notable non-human feature. And, again, like I responded to Faolyn, innate magic that you are born with is different than magic you can learn. It does make a consequential difference.And yet, a lot of people saw that and went &quot;Oh! That makes perfect sense for Dwarves, that's a very dwarvish ability.&quot; It fits into what we expect from them, because it is perfectly in line with their depictions. For Halflings they are finally giving them stealth proficiency, but that is a rather difficult sell to me on how that changes anything.See my response to FaolynNow this could be an interesting angle to take... if it also wasn't true for every other short race in the game. This is true of gnomes, kobolds, goblins, literally every race that can be &quot;small&quot; this is true for. So it can't really be a defining feature of halflings.No, as I have told you many, many, many, many times before that is not what I am saying. Stop trying to strawman me or ignore me, one of the two.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 8819836, member: 6801228"] See my response to Faolyn where I answer this exact question See my response to Faolyn, just because you can redefine human to include easily accessible reincarnation doesn't mean it is a fact of humans. Heck, think about this for a moment. No elf needs "evidence" of elves reincarnating. They trance, they visit their past lives. They don't need to prove it to other elves, it is a fact. They don't need special rituals, or speaking in tongues, or medicinal herbs and years of special training. They just live their natural lives. Really? So, you can completely dismiss utterly inhuman experiences because... you weren't following the changes in lore? That doesn't seem like a very compelling case. Extreme cognitive abilities ARE the default of gnomes. Yes, it would be like saying every human has Batman's capabilities, that is why it is a notable non-human feature. And, again, like I responded to Faolyn, innate magic that you are born with is different than magic you can learn. It does make a consequential difference. And yet, a lot of people saw that and went "Oh! That makes perfect sense for Dwarves, that's a very dwarvish ability." It fits into what we expect from them, because it is perfectly in line with their depictions. For Halflings they are finally giving them stealth proficiency, but that is a rather difficult sell to me on how that changes anything. See my response to Faolyn Now this could be an interesting angle to take... if it also wasn't true for every other short race in the game. This is true of gnomes, kobolds, goblins, literally every race that can be "small" this is true for. So it can't really be a defining feature of halflings. No, as I have told you many, many, many, many times before that is not what I am saying. Stop trying to strawman me or ignore me, one of the two. [/QUOTE]

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