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

[Maxperson]

I will have you know, that I have drew ire of fans for criticising supposedly belowed comics like Jonathan Hickman's Infinity or Geoff johns' Sinestro Corps War for being too Earth-centric. There are so many great charactersin these comics, it's disgusting it is all ruined for few annoying people's obsession with worshipping billionaires and being afraid of clowns.

I feel your pain.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Again

Laziness, nostalgia , or fear by the market leader

All good reasons to leave WotC to it's mass-market, profit-driven ways and move on to more interesting pastures.

 

[Not a Decepticon]

This has been explained to you multiple times. Why would @pemerton repeat it since you are dead set on ignoring anything that shows you to be incorrect and belittling anyone who disagrees with you. Or apparently likes Batman, because the vast majority of comic book fans are wrong and you are right.

Almost as bad as dying on the hill of "Animal people are more relatable to humans than other humans."

The argument was and still is that Hobbits in Fellowship are more relatable than humans, despite not being humans. You drew arbiyrary lines in sad ehat is and isn't relatable, lines that contradict themselves, and you in paticular have disturbing hatred to anything that doesn't look like you.

You could have talked about Peter Parker instead, though for my money that character rather works against your point (as super heroes go, Spider-Man is the avatar of relatability).

There's a problem with this assumption. I effin hate Spider-Man.

 

[Maxperson]

The argument was and still is that Hobbits in Fellowship are more relatable than humans, despite not being humans. You drew arbiyrary lines in sad ehat is and isn't relatable, lines that contradict themselves, and you in paticular have disturbing hatred to anything that doesn't look like you.

No. LOL

 

[Micah Sweet]

The argument was and still is that Hobbits in Fellowship are more relatable than humans, despite not being humans. You drew arbiyrary lines in sad ehat is and isn't relatable, lines that contradict themselves, and you in paticular have disturbing hatred to anything that doesn't look like you.


There's a problem with this assumption. I effin hate Spider-Man.

Perhaps you should have sidestepped the comics examples altogether then.

 

[Maxperson]

Your claim Hobbits are humans because they're relatable renders the entire argument moot because it turns everything that was ever relatable in all of ficiton into human. By your logic, Winnie the Pooh is human.

You ought to read the Silmarillion some time. If you did, you'd know that there are three races in Middle Earth. The first born elves. The second born dwarves. And lastly the third born race of men. Orcs are corrupted elves. Hobbits sort of have to be an offshoot of humanity since they are not elves or dwarves. Nor are they a corruption born of Morgoth.

 

[Maxperson]

This is a self-perpetuating fallacy. At one point creators picked arbitrary races to make playable and rejected demands for others. People got used to the former and now you claim it is somehow inherently more relatable, when it is at best just more exposure.

Quite frankly, it doesn't matter what you believe. Elves and half-elves are very popular with the masses. And since they have other human appearing choices(including human), no one was forced to play one and/or pick them over the others. It was a choice on their part because....................stay with me here..............they LIKE playing those two races.

 

[Remathilis]

You ought to read the Silmarillion some time. If you did, you'd know that there are three races in Middle Earth. The first born elves. The second born dwarves. And lastly the third born race of men. Orcs are corrupted elves. Hobbits sort of have to be an offshoot of humanity since they are not elves or dwarves. Nor are they a corruption born of Morgoth.

Eh. All it shows is even Tolkien couldn't be effed to come up with a backstory for hobbits.

 

[Not a Decepticon]

You ought to read the Silmarillion some time. If you did, you'd know that there are three races in Middle Earth. The first born elves. The second born dwarves. And lastly the third born race of men. Orcs are corrupted elves. Hobbits sort of have to be an offshoot of humanity since they are not elves or dwarves. Nor are they a corruption born of Morgoth.

That's nice headcanon, but that's all it will ever be. Hobbits origins aren't in Sirmaillion because Tolkien didn't think of the Hobbit as set in Middle Earth until he decide to write Lord of the Rings, that's all.

 

[Not a Decepticon]

Quite frankly, it doesn't matter what you believe. Elves and half-elves are very popular with the masses. And since they have other human appearing choices(including human), no one was forced to play one and/or pick them over the others. It was a choice on their part because....................stay with me here..............they LIKE playing those two races.

And people also like Kobolds, but you've been treating me like I'm stupid for liking them