Weiley31
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Blame whoever came up with the saying "K.I.S.S."So, the most popular character is Human fighter Bob...
aren't we creative as a community, haha!
Blame whoever came up with the saying "K.I.S.S."So, the most popular character is Human fighter Bob...
aren't we creative as a community, haha!
Races are more than their stats. I don't play orcs for a stat block, I play an orc because Times Change. If you removed stats entirely and broke it down to "Orc: You're an ORC' folks will still be playing these races. If all the difference between elves was "Pick WOODS, MAGIC or UNDERGROUND", folks will still play all three
Lore sells people on races. The lore absolutely matters
i mean, they're not really any more gnome-like than your average warforged besides from being small, they're basically one of the 'the same but slightly to the left' variant-species that didn't really need to be it's own entry, and warforged were already mentioned in the discussion, but conceptually yes, warforged variants that are designed to mimic other species.Autognomes are a better example of construct touched.
They're going to handle it with "Yeah pick medium or small" ,just like they did for a bunch of other races. Not perfect, sure, but its basic enough a solution. Its not really adding more diversity or lore though beucase.... Templates are boring. Let's be completely honest here, templates are boring. They don't catch the imagination like a full fleshed out stat block. They have their place, sure, but I'd argue that place isn't the PHB, where new players come to play the game and you want to sell them on the options at hand.I'm not against lore, I'm against that all tieflings are the same, and human based.
IF anything, my idea of templates would add more diversity and lore to aasimars, tiefling and changelings and what not.
sure, halflings could be a species of their own, or just small subspecies of humans, gnomes could be just small elves or dwarves that either got their own culture as they splitted form their parent race long ago, or just be integrated with default elves.
and, I made sure that Orcs are in the Core4, because orcs are awesome, free willed or just irredeemably evil or corrupt.
I'd buy a dragonborn husbando pillow, assuming I had the money..i'd buy an Aasimar waifu pillow.
Dat's a big pillow.I'd buy a dragonborn husbando pillow, assuming I had the money.
Going to be a real issue if/when they revisit Eberron in earnest, if they keep to this approach...They seem to be outright retconning half elves out of the lore altogether. Established half elf characters are being turned into full elves in newer content.
My current newbie campaign, Grades 9-12, has:Every kid I know (ages 8-12) chooses to play Dragonborn as their first character.
Half elves originate in Tolkien. In Tolkien, half elves have to choose between the life of an elf and the life of a human. Elrond chose to be an elf, his twin brother Elros chose to be human. Although he is known as Elrond Half-Elven, for all mechanical purposes, he is an elf.They seem to be outright retconning half elves out of the lore altogether. Established half elf characters are being turned into full elves in newer content.