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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6083599" data-attributes="member: 22424">For the 'Basic' line of products (and probably therefore in all non-setting-specific material) they should stick to a 'standard' Tolkien-inspired vision for elves, dwarves, and halflings.(The other possible look is WoW-derived, but the WoW elves look awful, so should be discounted as an option.)The reason for this is pretty simple: that's the vision that new players are going to bring to the game. And given that those new players are also going to be grappling with a ruleset that is necessarily pretty complex (even in its simplest form), you don't really want them also grappling with a non-standard interpretation of one of the key races.What they do in setting-specific material will, of course, depend on the setting. And, in fact, it would be a mistake to enforce a single consistent vision of the races - the elves of FR are different from the elves of Eberron, and both are distinct from the elves of Dark Sun, and that's a good thing.</blockquote>