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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mecheon" data-source="post: 9697641" data-attributes="member: 6801776">Well, that's you, and I frankly disagree and think its a boring book if you did it that way.When your competition (who crushed two D&D MMOs and was only out-done by BG3 decades after its high point) has humans, dwarves, gnomes, savage forest elves, space goats, full on werewolves, orcs, trolls, minotaurs, free-willed zombies, mana-addicted high elves, capitalist goblins and panda-people as the base races, having half the races being "Human but X" not going to crack it in the year 2025Tieflings offer a unique niche, though. They're cambions, half-fiends, tainted from birth with fiendish power. What will they face as a result? Will they deny their heritage, or embrace it?Half-elves have their unique niche, sure, but is the half elf niche of "Between humans and elves". Does that really sound like "This needs to be in the PHB" material to you? That it belongs with basic concepts like "Strong dude (probably got some giant in him)", "ORC, LOK'TAR OGAR" or "Half angel"?Half elves should have never been PHB material, they belong to later side content.While I don't deny half elves have their space, my issue has always been with them in the PHB. The time of Gygax's human centricism is well and truly over and they, due to their nature, are exactly in the middle of what humans and elves bring to the table.Thri-kreen and Tabaxi have unique niches that players love, but they're hardly PHB material either. Half elves shouldn't have been to begin with.</blockquote>

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