D&D (2024) Should 2014 Half Elves and Half Orcs be added to the 2025 SRD?

[Scribe]

Except the 2024 PHB let's me use older resources right in the text.

Doesnt matter. Its not a 2024/5.5e game. Its a combination of various resources to build your own bespoke D&D.

 

[Remathilis]

Doesnt matter. Its not a 2024/5.5e game. Its a combination of various resources to build your own bespoke D&D.

I find that a distinction without difference.

 

[Remathilis]

True. To each their own. Just because you've chosen to follow WotC's lead does mean everyone else wants to either.

Good thing you weren't forced to buy or play WotC's update. Free country and all...

 

[Scribe]

I find that a distinction without difference.

Thats fine, 3PP is no more 5.5e than the 2014 5e, than Spelljammer options.

5.5e/2024 PHB is its own thing, everything else is you building your own. Half-Elf is not a 5.5e option.

 

[Remathilis]

Thats fine, 3PP is no more 5.5e than the 2014 5e, than Spelljammer options.

5.5e/2024 PHB is its own thing, everything else is you building your own. Half-Elf is not a 5.5e option.

To you. For everyone else, it's part of the whole "it's all 5e" movement.

 

[Scribe]

To you. For everyone else, it's part of the whole "it's all 5e" movement.

Sure, if 5e is so general as to be 3PP, 5e, 5.5e.

At which point 5e is just 'current D&D' but its not 2024 5.5e, because that, is the 2024 PHB, which does not contain Half-Elf.

 

[Micah Sweet]

To you. For everyone else, it's part of the whole "it's all 5e" movement.

Trust me, it's not "everyone else".

 

[TwoSix]

Sure, if 5e is so general as to be 3PP, 5e, 5.5e.

At which point 5e is just 'current D&D' but its not 2024 5.5e, because that, is the 2024 PHB, which does not contain Half-Elf.

Which, just like the “is it a new edition” conversations, is pointless semantics. No matter what term people use, for actual games everyone involved will ask questions to determine exactly which resources are available.

These conversations are driven far more by people’s desires to catalog and draw exact boundaries rather than by any actual utility.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Which, just like the “is it a new edition” conversations, is pointless semantics. No matter what term people use, for actual games everyone involved will ask questions to determine exactly which resources are available.

These conversations are driven far more by people’s desires to catalog and draw exact boundaries rather than by any actual utility.

Personally I draw a lot of comfort and joy from cataloging and drawing boundaries.

 

[Scribe]

Which, just like the “is it a new edition” conversations, is pointless semantics. No matter what term people use, for actual games everyone involved will ask questions to determine exactly which resources are available.

These conversations are driven far more by people’s desires to catalog and draw exact boundaries rather than by any actual utility.

Terms and definitions are relevant if people want any kind of clarity. It's not pointless, unless people want to just assume their version is the truth.

That's not how meaningful discussion can take place.

Is Half-Elf present? Some are claiming it is, when apparently it's not in the book at all.

Pointless indeed.