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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nyeshet" data-source="post: 3711126" data-attributes="member: 18363">I've never really seen the point of half races.I can accept Half-Orcs only because I replace all Orcs with Half-Orcs, such that "Orc" has been redefined. That leaves Half-Elf, which I typically leave out. How can a Half Elf truly be the diplomatic bridge that the developers at WotC seem to want it to be?Elves live for centuries. To them the Half-Elf is almost pitiable. It live for not quite two centuries, it has inferior senses, and so forth. I see elves as pitying the half-elf,  not looking to the half elf as a bridge for understanding and interacting with humans. Humans, on the other hand, I see envying the half-elf for its long life span, yet distrusting the half elf for its alien elven heritage - in appearance, perhaps even in culture if it were raised by elves. While I can see some humans trying to take advantage of half-elves to get an in on elven trade, more often I see humans looking upon half-elves with suspicion and envy. Again, I do not see half-elves having a diplomatic role. Then again, with half-orcs having replaced orcs IMCWs, this means that half-elves are by far the rarest of the core races - equivalent in rareness to planar beings such as tieflings, aasimars, and genasi. As such, I tend to think that they should be dropped as a race. That 4th Edition is not only not dropping them but is adding Tiefling as a core race - and supposedly dropping one or two of the current core races, just seems very odd to my view of things.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid    :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" />  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" />  :\</blockquote>

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