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

[Yaarel]

None of that is default D&D or in any of the major settings that TSR, WOTC, or any major publisher creates.

The 2024 default is intentionally setting-neutral. DMs are supposed to make their own worlds − or purchase one of the many official settings from WotC.

Because 2014 made Forgotten Realms the default core setting − this specific setting often got neutralized.

But the 2024 Forgotten Realms is now free from core to explore its own questions, such as where are all the high level Elves who are hundreds of years old.

 

[AnotherGuy]

Did you really just put Japanese people into one bracket with blue aliens and talkig racoons?

You're welcome to side-step the question.
I'll take it that you understand my point.

 

[Minigiant]

The 2024 default is intentionally setting-neutral. DMs are supposed to make their own worlds − or purchase one of the many official settings from WotC.

Because 2014 made Forgotten Realms the default core setting − this specific setting often got neutralized.

But the 2024 Forgotten Realms is now free from core to explore its own questions, such as where are all the high level Elves who are hundreds of years old.

Here is the issue

Setting neutral is not the same thing as biological neutral.

Elf still live to be 700 years old and have heightened senses no matter which sitting there from. So those biological aspects will affect them in every setting. Their coaches should change based on the fact that the old people in their species are over 500 years old and have seen areas grow and decline over time and multiple generations of younger races live and die.

An elf we'll still have hundreds of years to practice crafts if they don't killed. So a elf civilian who lives in a relatively safe area and does not go out adventuring would be skilled at dozens of crafts. And an elf you would know several skills just by their biology.

Now imagine a half elf who has all of the mentality of a human but is middle age at age 100

Imagine yourself a human right now having an entire extra lifetime at full adult capabilities.

Thats a half elf if you just look at age.

 

[Not a Decepticon]

You're welcome to side-step the question.
I'll take it that you understand my point.

I'm not sidestepping, I will come back to the pist later. I still want to jnow why you think it was remotelly ok to put a group of real people in one bracked wih made up cteatures of fantasy and sci-fi. Japan is a real place, full of real people, you know that, right?

 

[AnotherGuy]

I'm not sidestepping, I will come back to the pist later. I still wan to jnow why you think it was remotelly ok to put a group of real people in one bracked wih made up cteatures of fantasy and sci-fi. Japan is a real place, full of ral people, you know that, right?

I'm not engaging with your outrage deflection.

 

[Not a Decepticon]

Here is the issue

Setting neutral is not the same thing as biological neutral.

Elf still live to be 700 years old and have heightened senses no matter which sitting there from. So those biological aspects will affect them in every setting. Their coaches should change based on the fact that the old people in their species are over 500 years old and have seen areas grow and decline over time and multiple generations of younger races live and die.

An elf we'll still have hundreds of years to practice crafts if they don't killed. So a elf civilian who lives in a relatively safe area and does not go out adventuring would be skilled at dozens of crafts. And an elf you would know several skills just by their biology.

Now imagine a half elf who has all of the mentality of a human but is middle age at age 100

Imagine yourself a human right now having an entire extra lifetime at full adult capabilities.

Thats a half elf if you just look at age.

All aspects of species are dctated by the setting, ypu effectively demand forcing one idea as "biologicsl default" on all worlds, infinite potential and creativity be damned. This is how we got garbage that were 2014 Gnolls, where books were claiming every gnoll in every world is exactly the same as Forgotten Realms Gnolls, mindless spawn of Yeenoghu who only exist to kill. Even on Eberron or Mystaa, where Yeenoghu is not allowed and Gnolls were established as different.

 

[Not a Decepticon]

I'm not engaging with your outrage deflection.

Why not? You realized we stepped into a bigger problem that the line of thinkingyou employ may lead to, maybe?

 

[AnotherGuy]

Why not? You realized we stepped into a bigger problem that the line of thinkingyou employ may lead to, maybe?

Because I do not subscribe to your ideology.

 

[Crimson Longinus]

Because I do not subscribe to your ideology.

The ideology that the Japanese are not aliens?

 

[AnotherGuy]

Humans are not aliens to Humans.