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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 9412505" data-attributes="member: 5142">You don't strike me as the sort of person who would be persuaded from your prejudices on this matter regardless of what anyone would tell you, though I would love to be proven wrong. My general impression is that you seem pretty fixed in your opinions. I will say that this is what Monte Cook did in his Arcana Evolved game, though I believe he also did it much earlier for his Ptolus campaign setting for testing 3e. You will need to consult the Ptolus sage [USER=11760]@Whizbang Dustyboots[/USER] on that. He created a race called the Faen. The Faen had two subtypes - Quickling and Loresong - which correspond approximately to the Halfling and Gnome. There was also no elf race in AU/AE, so the Faen filled that niche too in the setting. Moreover, both the Quickling and Loresong Faen could choose to undergo a magic ritual to become a tiny Spryte.I would personally not mind combining races or subtypes of some of my favorites. For example, I would potentially combine Drow and Shadar-Kai to represent the Shadowfell equivalent of the Unseelie, and then combine the High Elves with the Eladrin to be the Feywild's Seelie, with Wild Elves representing the Prime Material plane. I say this as someone who enjoys playing these indiviual subtypes. Obviously this is just with elf subtypes, but I have most definitely combined some of my favorite races in the past in many of my past games.I did something similar in one of my old games. Halfling and goblins were cousin species. When humans migrated into the continent, humans thought halflings were little humans, and halflings were all too happy to propagate this belief as it came with preferential treatment from humans. Likewise, elves and gnomes were the basically the same. It was just a matter of whether they were small-fey or medium-fey.</blockquote>

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