Level Up (A5E) Were the Planetouched a design trap?

[Faolyn]

And that's basically what planetouched are now - the new "elves". They are what every player that would have played an elf back in the day plays now to be "cool". They should have never been introduced as a PC race. Like elves before them, there popularity is a sign of basically poor game mechanics and their ubiquity is bad for the game. Everyone in the 90's wanted to be a Drow; everyone now wants to be a tiefling. It's so tiring.

Or, you know, because at least some people feel like they can identify with the weird-looking outsider.

 

[WarDriveWorley]

Or, you know, because at least some people feel like they can identify with the weird-looking outsider.

wait.. people don't pick races for the same reasons? I'm shook