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<blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 9159298" data-attributes="member: 6915329"><p><strong>The Winners!</strong></p><p>Ancestry is the favored term</p><p>No sub-races; use cultures instead</p><p>Each ancestry should have at least one trait you can choose, and have at as many traits as necessary</p><p></p><p><strong>Interesting Comment</strong></p><p>[USER=1125]@Tonguez[/USER]'s suggestion of not having elves but having a more generic fey-touched people. </p><p></p><p>A thought, which I'm not going to make into a poll unless people really want me to: Have "racial templates," including fey ancestry and half-human, which you can then take on top of your existing ancestry--perhaps your options are to get a free skill or bonus +1 ASI, <em>or </em>take a template. Whether that completely replaces elves is up in the air, or if elves are not fey unless they take this template (elves left Faerie thousands of years ago, but sometimes, one is born who is a touch closer to their ancestry), I dunno. I'd lean towards the latter, myself. But interestingly, as of right now in <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/vote-up-a-5e-alike-part-2-lineages-heritages.700346/" target="_blank">Poll 2</a>, the third-place ancestries are gnomes and halflings--beating out a lot of other typesI would have thought would be more popular, like tieflings or kobolds (both my favorites, sob). Maybe gnomes are just halflings with the fey ancestry template? And D&D was going for both regular and fey goblins--this might be a good way to express that.</p><p></p><p>Also, <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/vote-up-a-5e-alike-part-3-stats-and-asis.700386/" target="_blank">Poll 3</a> is now up!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Faolyn, post: 9159298, member: 6915329"] [B]The Winners![/B] Ancestry is the favored term No sub-races; use cultures instead Each ancestry should have at least one trait you can choose, and have at as many traits as necessary [B]Interesting Comment[/B] [USER=1125]@Tonguez[/USER]'s suggestion of not having elves but having a more generic fey-touched people. A thought, which I'm not going to make into a poll unless people really want me to: Have "racial templates," including fey ancestry and half-human, which you can then take on top of your existing ancestry--perhaps your options are to get a free skill or bonus +1 ASI, [I]or [/I]take a template. Whether that completely replaces elves is up in the air, or if elves are not fey unless they take this template (elves left Faerie thousands of years ago, but sometimes, one is born who is a touch closer to their ancestry), I dunno. I'd lean towards the latter, myself. But interestingly, as of right now in [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/vote-up-a-5e-alike-part-2-lineages-heritages.700346/']Poll 2[/URL], the third-place ancestries are gnomes and halflings--beating out a lot of other typesI would have thought would be more popular, like tieflings or kobolds (both my favorites, sob). Maybe gnomes are just halflings with the fey ancestry template? And D&D was going for both regular and fey goblins--this might be a good way to express that. Also, [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/vote-up-a-5e-alike-part-3-stats-and-asis.700386/']Poll 3[/URL] is now up! [/QUOTE]
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