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<blockquote data-quote="Mephista" data-source="post: 9353610" data-attributes="member: 6786252">A few bits to keep in mind.Species no longer includes culture bits.&nbsp; Only biology.&nbsp; so an entire culture of half-elves in one setting means nothing. If you want to talk about a reason to keep a distinct set of mechanics, you need to talk about fantasy-biology.&nbsp; I mean, there's a bit of wiggleroom with things like skills or tool proficencies, since those are a bit weird as biological features... but you can't justify an entire species based on them having a country in one setting. That's purely culture.&nbsp; Need to talk about how they are biologically distinct.&nbsp; That's how 5.5e is doing species.A second point.&nbsp; We've had other half-human, half-monster races before. Notably half-dragon, half-giants. And we now have dragonborn and Goliath as their spiritual successors, and does the larger community really care that we dont have pc half-dragons?&nbsp; I haven't really seen anything to suggest it. I've seen people adapt and move on.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mephista, post: 9353610, member: 6786252"] A few bits to keep in mind. Species no longer includes culture bits. Only biology. so an entire culture of half-elves in one setting means nothing. If you want to talk about a reason to keep a distinct set of mechanics, you need to talk about fantasy-biology. I mean, there's a bit of wiggleroom with things like skills or tool proficencies, since those are a bit weird as biological features... but you can't justify an entire species based on them having a country in one setting. That's purely culture. Need to talk about how they are biologically distinct. That's how 5.5e is doing species. A second point. We've had other half-human, half-monster races before. Notably half-dragon, half-giants. And we now have dragonborn and Goliath as their spiritual successors, and does the larger community really care that we dont have pc half-dragons? I haven't really seen anything to suggest it. I've seen people adapt and move on. [/QUOTE]

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