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<blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 9463779" data-attributes="member: 7635">Goliaths were a mechanical compromise to allow players to play &quot;large&quot; PCs without the headaches of being large (and all the power of it).a story wise, they were a race of humanoids with giant-like features that claimed to descend from true giants and often fight with them. They were never half-giants, but people insisted on treating them like that and WotC has responded by increasing the giant bloodline link.Then again, the D&amp;D community has this rather nasty habit of reducing every species that &quot;descended from X&quot; as a &quot;Half-X&quot;.. The tiefling was originally described as part &quot;something else, usually sinister&quot; into half-fiends. Dragonborn never were the offspring of humanoids and dragons in any origin but that doesn't stop the community from calling them half-dragons. Shifters have a long and tortured history with lycanthropy, even implying a chicken or the egg scenario on which came first, but all the community knows is &quot;half werewolf&quot;. At this point, I think the tabaxi is only safe from being called a &quot;half-cat&quot; because people don't want the implications of their parents!And that wouldn't be bad if the next step to that is &quot;make them a template or a feat&quot; Which further reduces any attempt to make them more than &quot;half-x&quot; and de-legitimize them. A lot of ink was placed in attempts to make most of these species more than &quot;momma was a human, daddy was a dragon/giant/angel/demon/genie/werewolf/vampire/whatever&quot; and yet people keep ignoring it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Remathilis, post: 9463779, member: 7635"] Goliaths were a mechanical compromise to allow players to play "large" PCs without the headaches of being large (and all the power of it).a story wise, they were a race of humanoids with giant-like features that claimed to descend from true giants and often fight with them. They were never half-giants, but people insisted on treating them like that and WotC has responded by increasing the giant bloodline link. Then again, the D&D community has this rather nasty habit of reducing every species that "descended from X" as a "Half-X".. The tiefling was originally described as part "something else, usually sinister" into half-fiends. Dragonborn never were the offspring of humanoids and dragons in any origin but that doesn't stop the community from calling them half-dragons. Shifters have a long and tortured history with lycanthropy, even implying a chicken or the egg scenario on which came first, but all the community knows is "half werewolf". At this point, I think the tabaxi is only safe from being called a "half-cat" because people don't want the implications of their parents! And that wouldn't be bad if the next step to that is "make them a template or a feat" Which further reduces any attempt to make them more than "half-x" and de-legitimize them. A lot of ink was placed in attempts to make most of these species more than "momma was a human, daddy was a dragon/giant/angel/demon/genie/werewolf/vampire/whatever" and yet people keep ignoring it. [/QUOTE]

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