Which element could D&D stand to lose more?

[Desdichado]

This may be a silly question, but I'm going to ask it anyway, since I've seen a couple of discussions recently that loudly advocated the evils of each of these. If you were in charge of D&D, and for some reason that I won't bother trying to explain, you were told that it had to lose either psionics or elves, which would you prefer to see cut?

 

[Crothian]

Psionics. THey are always an after thought, an add on. If the game presented them as a something in every game like they do with elves being in the core books and not an option to be added on later then it might be a different story.

 

[IronWolf]

I'd cut Psionics if I had to choose. Too many of my characters are elves or half-elves to cut them! And I really don't see why so many people hate the elves so much...

 

[Desdichado]

And I really don't see why so many people hate the elves so much...

I'm not really a "hatah" so much as I am a person that just doesn't have any use for them.

I've certainly seen some vitriolic elf-hate in my day, though. Wow.

 

[Doug McCrae]

There's so much elf-love out there, you just can't get rid of them. 8 out of 10 otherkin agree.

 

[Stormonu]

I'd have to go with dumping psionics. I've had more samurai, ninja and monks in my D&D games than I've had a use for psionics.

 

[Traveon Wyvernspur]

I'd have to go with cutting Psionics. There are way too many elves out there from the normal wood elf, to the half-elf, to the drow. What would the some worlds be like w/o half the population being available? Forgotten Realms wouldn't really exist w/o all the different types of elves, but there are very few psionics you have mind flayers and a few people from each other race that can do it, but for the most part it's pretty rare anyhow.

 

[Raven Crowking]

Meh. If I had to cut one or the other......It's a toss up.

Either way, they'd appear in a later splatbook.



RC

 

[Desdichado]

Well, the "dump the elves" camp is doing better than I'd thought it would at this early stage, with only a few precincts reporting in their numbers. I expect that they'll only lose ground as time goes on and more votes come in.

 

[Piratecat]

I love psionics, but they're definitely less integral than those tree-lov... err, elves.