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

[OptionalRule]

Should they? Yes. Will they? No.

WotC will wait for a moment they need a revenue boost and release an expansion book that reintroduce Half-Orcs and Half-Elves and then expect you to thank them for doing it.

 

[Minigiant]

"The current trend is missing the point of various player options, and devolving every option to a funny hat, a costume, and is pointless without heavy mechanical crunch."

How I wished then did at least offered guidance to play the nonhuman humaniod that you might be such as how Vampire the Masquerade sometimes pretends it tries to push and players end up trying to push themselves.

I still remember the time when I played an elf wizard and and a player came to me after the session says I hate your character but he's so fun because he's just not human. He's a jerk of an elf. And my reply was that to him "everybody else is a jerk and he can outlive them so he can outlast dealing with them as long as he doesn't die in the process".

Make Elves Haughty Forever

 

[Micah Sweet]

How I wished then did at least offered guidance to play the nonhuman humaniod that you might be such as how Vampire the Masquerade sometimes pretends it tries to push and players end up trying to push themselves.

I still remember the time when I played an elf wizard and and a player came to me after the session says I hate your character but he's so fun because he's just not human. He's a jerk of an elf. And my reply was that to him "everybody else is a jerk and he can outlive them so he can outlast dealing with them as long as he doesn't die in the process".

Make Elves Haughty Forever

This has always been how I see elves, and I have zero problem with it, but to be fair it's not the only way.

 

[Scribe]

does not change my point, makes something more sellable as an idea

There is no point here. There is no proof that funny hat's sells more.

 

[Micah Sweet]

There is no point here. There is no proof that funny hat's sells more.

They are, however, easier to design.

 

[Scribe]

They are, however, easier to design.

I guess, its just a shift in direction really. Art Director vs Game Design.

 

[CreamCloud0]

How I wished then did at least offered guidance to play the nonhuman humaniod that you might be such as how Vampire the Masquerade sometimes pretends it tries to push and players end up trying to push themselves.

Could you clarify for me what is meant in this section here please?

 

[Mind of tempest]

There is no point here. There is no proof that funny hat's sells more.

then why do you care at all one way or another?

 

[Scribe]

then why do you care at all one way or another?

Sorry, there is a point, and that is that funny hat/playing dress up, with no mechanical weight, is a poorer option. It doesnt impact sales, because that (mechanical crunch) isnt what is driving sales anyway.

 

[Hriston]

slightly more trees and worse food.

Well, you certainly don't seem to have much in common with hobbits!