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<blockquote data-quote="JiffyPopTart" data-source="post: 8190329" data-attributes="member: 4881">I can see your point.....if they went out of the way to give them the &quot;Full Monty&quot; treatment, they should also have gotten the &quot;Full Monty&quot; lore as well.&nbsp; Would you feel different if all the 5e PHB race choices had at least two subtypes and were just alphabetized instead of having one tier called out as being special despite them all being in the PHB?Basically, do you think 5e made a mistake not treating all the race choices in the PHB equally?&nbsp; I've never really thought of it this way, but making the &quot;lesser choices&quot; also lesser fleshed out via rules and lore they kind of doom them to second class as much as the arbitrary division of the races into two buckets by calling some out as core.&nbsp; This then contrasts with the fact that halflings got the fleshed out rules treatment, but not the equivalent lore treatment.I maintain that halfling lore is &quot;good enough&quot; but do see an asymmetry in how they are treated.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JiffyPopTart, post: 8190329, member: 4881"] I can see your point.....if they went out of the way to give them the "Full Monty" treatment, they should also have gotten the "Full Monty" lore as well. Would you feel different if all the 5e PHB race choices had at least two subtypes and were just alphabetized instead of having one tier called out as being special despite them all being in the PHB? Basically, do you think 5e made a mistake not treating all the race choices in the PHB equally? I've never really thought of it this way, but making the "lesser choices" also lesser fleshed out via rules and lore they kind of doom them to second class as much as the arbitrary division of the races into two buckets by calling some out as core. This then contrasts with the fact that halflings got the fleshed out rules treatment, but not the equivalent lore treatment. I maintain that halfling lore is "good enough" but do see an asymmetry in how they are treated. [/QUOTE]

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