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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 3794058" data-attributes="member: 2011">Well, if you are going to be literal about it, yours is a very specific definition of "in poor taste". There is nothing to indicate that the phrase must mean that there is no other purpose than to offend. In fact, a distasteful or in poor taste comment is often one where the person making the comment is totally unaware that s/he is being either offensive, or crude, or tactless.I find the inclusion of Tieflings to be crude or lowlife. It does not offend me, I just find it below pedestrian, the opposite of heroic, and as Imp put it, cheesy. Something I would expect of 14 year olds looking for something cool to add, not game designers who should be upholding the traditions of DND: the things that make DND great like the core PC races.I am not opposed to getting rid of sacred cows (like Invisibility being a second level spell) if it makes the game system more balanced.I am opposed to changing the flavor of core DND, just to change the flavor. Removing Gnomes and adding Tieflings has nothing to do with game balance. It's total flavor and it's not core DND flavor.To me, that's "in poor taste". YMMV and obviously does.And a third possibility cannot exist in your narrow definition world?</blockquote>