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<blockquote data-quote="MerricB" data-source="post: 790883" data-attributes="member: 3586">IMO, the two most important abilities of the half-elf are these:* Lowlight vision* No Con penaltyHalf-elves make really good rangers, druids and ranger/rogues. At night and outdoors they are excellent.Underground, lowlight vision, whilst somewhat inferior to darkvision, is still crucial. I was recently running a group of four humans and two halflings through a dungeon... they were so much in trouble. A bulleye lantern and lowlight vision gives you a 120' sight range.The lack of a Con penalty (compared to the elf) means they're better in melee and as combat casters. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> They make better multi-class sorcerers than the elf as well.That said, most people want to specialise more than the half-elf allows. The half-elf is a niche race, but this isn't a bad thing - any more than the half-orc is undesirable to play.Cheers!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MerricB, post: 790883, member: 3586"] IMO, the two most important abilities of the half-elf are these: * Lowlight vision * No Con penalty Half-elves make really good rangers, druids and ranger/rogues. At night and outdoors they are excellent. Underground, lowlight vision, whilst somewhat inferior to darkvision, is still crucial. I was recently running a group of four humans and two halflings through a dungeon... they were so much in trouble. A bulleye lantern and lowlight vision gives you a 120' sight range. The lack of a Con penalty (compared to the elf) means they're better in melee and as combat casters. :) They make better multi-class sorcerers than the elf as well. That said, most people want to specialise more than the half-elf allows. The half-elf is a niche race, but this isn't a bad thing - any more than the half-orc is undesirable to play. Cheers! [/QUOTE]

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