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

[Minigiant]

In my experience, Vampire is best played as a character from the Matrix or, if Malkavian, as Jim Carey's The Mask.

IME it's best if played as different Mafia families.

But that's my Brooklyn bias talking.

 

[Minigiant]

What about things that aren't in the SRD? For example, How do you compare Tales of the Valiant's Spell blade subclass since the Eldritch Knight is not in the SRD? For that matter, kobolds and goblins aren't in the SRD as PC races either.

I don't consider Eldritch Knight a core aspect to the feel of D&D.
I do consider Half Elves and Half Orcs to be core aspects to the feel of D&D.

That's the difference.

 

[Vaalingrade]

IME it's best if played as different Mafia families.

But that's my Brooklyn bias talking.

As long as we're ignoring the whole pretending to be sad about lost humanity despite having awesome superpowers and the option to drain your obnoxious, self-important boss for more power, we're good.

 

[Mind of tempest]

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

well yeah I am not a halfling that is sister, maybe mother as well but the unfun ones who hate the tooks for dumb reasons.

As long as we're ignoring the whole pretending to be sad about lost humanity despite having awesome superpowers and the option to drain your obnoxious, self-important boss for more power, we're good.

don't the boss have the law on their side as post-human bloodsuckers?

wait so beyond force of habit what is it that everyone wants half elves and half orcs for?

 

[Remathilis]

I don't consider Eldritch Knight a core aspect to the feel of D&D.
I do consider Half Elves and Half Orcs to be core aspects to the feel of D&D.

That's the difference.

Elf fighter/mages literally predate the existence of half-elves.

 

[pemerton]

Elf fighter/mages literally predate the existence of half-elves.

I did have that same thought.

 

[CreamCloud0]

Elf fighter/mages literally predate the existence of half-elves.

does that actually make them more iconic though?

 

[wicked cool]

So Tanis doesn't exist. If an elf can’t tell you’ve eliminated that entire bias. His struggle never happens

 

[Mind of tempest]

does that actually make them more iconic though?

Eldrich Knights lack the iconic ness need to fill the role properly, they feel like a gap-filling idea

 

[CreamCloud0]

Eldrich Knights lack the iconic ness need to fill the role properly, they feel like a gap-filling idea

although i would admit the mage-knight archetype is an iconic one, it is not one that takes a particular shape or form in it's execution nor is it specifically iconic to the identity of DnD, it's much more of a generic idea than that, since we've had knights and mages we've had people imagining what if we put them together, and while the half-elf is also not conceptually exclusive to DnD it's association is much stronger as well as the other cross-species the half-orc who's origins i think do lay with DnD (though don't quote me on that)