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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8685289" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Is it dilution? Or is it tempering excesses?You mention &quot;to an absurd degree.&quot; I think that's exactly the problem with both things. Their tropes are turned up to 11, massively over-emphasized to the point of feeling exclusionary. By preserving some of the &quot;down-to-earth everyman&quot; angle, and also some of the &quot;magic and whimsy&quot; angle, you get a whole greater than the sum of its parts. Practicality lightened and refreshed by whimsy. Whimsy grounded and disciplined by practicality.You can? I literally just tested myself on this after reading your post here. Brought up, sight-unseen, the Google image search for &quot;5e halfling&quot; and &quot;5e gnome.&quot; I tabbed between browser windows with my eyes shut, then looked at which one came up without looking at the search. It was gnomes; I misidentified them as halflings. They have very similar proportions (particularly their weird-looking feet and large heads), and the only real difference I can see between them in art is gnomes tend to have bigger, pointier ears--but even that is completely up in the air.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 8685289, member: 6790260"] Is it dilution? Or is it tempering excesses? You mention "to an absurd degree." I think that's [I]exactly[/I] the problem with both things. Their tropes are turned up to 11, massively over-emphasized to the point of feeling exclusionary. By preserving [I]some[/I] of the "down-to-earth everyman" angle, and also [I]some[/I] of the "magic and whimsy" angle, you get a whole greater than the sum of its parts. Practicality lightened and refreshed by whimsy. Whimsy grounded and disciplined by practicality. You can? I literally just tested myself on this after reading your post here. Brought up, sight-unseen, the Google image search for "5e halfling" and "5e gnome." I tabbed between browser windows with my eyes shut, then looked at which one came up without looking at the search. It was gnomes; I misidentified them as halflings. They have very similar proportions (particularly their weird-looking feet and large heads), and the only real difference I can see between them in art is gnomes tend to have bigger, pointier ears--but even that is completely up in the air. [/QUOTE]

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