Should there just be one sort of elf?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

What one calls nonsense another calls fun.

My way of playing D&D is the One True Way (TM).

 

[The Grackle]

Should there just be one sort of elf?

There is: Pansy.

 

[Mercule]

It'd be nice.

I don't care so much though, other than wanting the drow to wait until MM 83 and PHB 84 before they are presented -- assuming we continue to see annual releases of a new MM and PHB. I might be more tolerant by my 120th birthday.

 

[Kent H]

I'm kinda in favor of the Keebler elves... but until Hasbro is bought out by Kellogg...


One kind of elf please. Two if you really must include their uber-kin, the drow. The rest are merely overblown Tolkienisms.

And the, "but they're magical" excuse seems a weak type of apologia. Gnomes have vastly more 'inherent' magic, yet only a couple of sub-types exist.

Actually, there's at least 7 types of Gnomes. PHB, Tinker and Non-Tinker from DL, Whisper, Chaos, Svirfneblin, Wavecrest. Plus the elemental varieties of every race from UA.

It'd be nice.

I don't care so much though, other than wanting the drow to wait until MM 83 and PHB 84 before they are presented -- assuming we continue to see annual releases of a new MM and PHB. I might be more tolerant by my 120th birthday.

Thankfully, it seems more and more likely that drow in some form will be in the first PHB.

 

[The Human Target]

What they should REALLY do is to separate race from culture. I've been quite impressed by the flexibility you gain if a system is doing that consequently.

But since it won't happen in D&D 4th.ed. I'd rather have just a single kind of elf.

Win!

Thats really the best answer.

 

[Scholar & Brutalman]

What they should REALLY do is to separate race from culture. I've been quite impressed by the flexibility you gain if a system is doing that consequently.

But since it won't happen in D&D 4th.ed. I'd rather have just a single kind of elf.

I wouldn't mind if gnomes and halflings were the same species with different cultures, so doing the same for elves certainly doesn't trouble me.

Though I think by 5th edition, elves aren't going to be in the PHB. Drow will have finally replaced them, with the "surface drow" being relegated to the first (or maybe even the second) drow splat book.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Actually, there's at least 7 types of Gnomes. PHB, Tinker and Non-Tinker from DL, Whisper, Chaos, Svirfneblin, Wavecrest. Plus the elemental varieties of every race from UA.

There's also Forest Gnomes in FR (the normal ones being Rock Gnomes)

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Though I think by 5th edition, elves aren't going to be in the PHB. Drow will have finally replaced them, with the "surface drow" being relegated to the first (or maybe even the second) drow splat book.

Doubt it.

It might even be that drow will lose their unique racial abilities. Some parts of Storm of the Dead read as if that would be the case for the FR, and they're explaining that in the Realms because they have to. It could be a core D&D change.

 

[hong]

Doubt it.

It might even be that drow will lose their unique racial abilities. Some parts of Storm of the Dead read as if that would be the case for the FR, and they're explaining that in the Realms because they have to. It could be a core D&D change.

/beats KaeYoss with a stick

 

[RPG_Tweaker]

There should no mechanical divergence for sub-races; there's no need for that kind of class-twinking. Let the traditional sub-race differences be cultural and cosmetic.

Have all the uber-powerups for the deep-versions (Duergar, Drow, Svirvneblin, etc.) due to the "inexplicable-magical-subterranean-supercharging-radiation." Make these powers transient upon leaving their realm unless they take a special feat.