D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting

[Paul Farquhar]

You're inventing fiction that isn't there. It doesn't say that, so it isn't that. For whatever reason you can't or don't want to see what the truth of 5.5e is.

The rules don’t say anything about how any sort of reproduction works. Babies could be delivered by storks so far as the rules are concerned.

In practical terms, the DM/players decide that stuff for their game, there is no rules based interpretation.

 

[Scribe]

Not really

Is 12 nations that hard to track?
For D&D players?

In one region? It's not that it's too much to track, it's just kind of nonsensical unless that region is old world Europe.

 

[Maxperson]

The rules don’t say anything about how any sort of reproduction works. Babies could be delivered by storks so far as the rules are concerned.

In practical terms, the DM/players decide that stuff for their game, there is no rules based interpretation.

There are clear physical/biological traits and aspects. That means blood connection, which means cross race breeding in the past. You can invent stork babies if you want, but what is written is not that.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

There are clear physical/biological traits and aspects. That means blood connection, which means cross race breeding in the past. You can invent stork babies if you want, but what is written is not that.

There is nothing to say biology exists in D&D-land.

It’s fantasy. No science is implied.

 

[AnotherGuy]

The socalled "Half" species are ALWAYS a magical shapechange.

I've seen this late so I may be retreading ground...
So to you Tanis Half-Elven was conceived via magic and not physical? You may want to run this idea past Weis and Hickman.
I do not remember you making this argument during the debacle about half-orcs and their origin.

Also you're 100% wrong about Greek mythology - its physical intercourse no matter the beast-form taken by the god.

 

[Maxperson]

There is nothing to say biology exists in D&D-land.

So I guess all races just spontaneously come into being, because none of them say it's the old fashioned way. Sorry, at some point you just have to go with the simplest explanation.

 

[AnotherGuy]

The rules don’t say anything about how any sort of reproduction works. Babies could be delivered by storks so far as the rules are concerned.

Where was this defense during the half-orc debacle?

In practical terms, the DM/players decide that stuff for their game (snip and end)

Yes agreed.

 

[AnotherGuy]

So I guess all races just spontaneously come into being, because none of them say it's the old fashioned way. Sorry, at some point you just have to go with the simplest explanation.

Apparently gods make species through magic and now mortals make species through magic.

You're a god, they're god everyone is a god! Yay

 

[SkidAce]

The nickname "Half" means, not fully. For example, somewhat like a Dragon. It doesnt necessarily refer to sexual reproduction. Indeed, the sexual teproduction is genetically impossible.

The socalled "Half" species are ALWAYS a magical shapechange.

Depends on the setting.

The majority of humanoids in my setting (to include humans, dwarves, elves, etc) all originated with one race that the Ancients modified their DNA to be their servants.

Thats why there can be so many "half-" species.

Of course, nobody (especially the elves) would believe you if you told them that, and would likely be insulted.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

So I guess all races just spontaneously come into being, because none of them say it's the old fashioned way.
Sorry, at some point you just have to go with the simplest explanation.

Abiogenesis is the simplest explanation. That’s why people believed it until evidence of something more complicated was discovered.

But yes, you will probably want to decide something - but what that something is isn’t dictated by the rules. So everyone can have a different interpretation, and all be right.