Fuck the books, pick a system you like and make up whatever you want. The books are just a guide to ideas, anyway. I doubt anyone ever slavishly stuck to the books.
And they need to stop thinking "race" and maybe get rid of the bullshit halfbreeds. Think of them as "species", and then your species differences are more than cosmetic. Why should just anyone have the ability to navigate labyrinths like a Minotaur can?
Anyway, they already dumbed down the morality system, they'll probably completely get rid of that next.
I personally never understood why they are called "races" to begin with. Like it they had minor differences between them, alright I guess, but we're talking about like, humans, elves, dwarves, lizardmen and such, they have almost nothing in common lol.
I thought it had to do with half-breads. Since you can't do that cross-species thing.
The truth is that you should probably not allow half-elves or half-orcs. Elves are an alien species that somewhat resemble humans, they should not be able to have babies with humans. Look at lions and tigers, they are both feline but the combination are sterile or worse.
A lot of it is also do to Tolkien, he says the race of Elves and race of Men or something to that extent. He also made half elves.
I honestly think they really don't know the difference between "race" and "species" and think they're on the same level, rather than nested for some reason. You hear that nonsense "there's only one race - the human race!" ... oh, so, humans are just one breed (race) out of a bigger species that includes chimps and bonobos then? People hate it when you point that out (and then the same people will berate anyone who feels scandalized by being related to a genuine reeing retard for some bizarre reason.)
Fuck the books, pick a system you like and make up whatever you want. The books are just a guide to ideas, anyway. I doubt anyone ever slavishly stuck to the books.
And they need to stop thinking "race" and maybe get rid of the bullshit halfbreeds. Think of them as "species", and then your species differences are more than cosmetic. Why should just anyone have the ability to navigate labyrinths like a Minotaur can?
Anyway, they already dumbed down the morality system, they'll probably completely get rid of that next.
I personally never understood why they are called "races" to begin with. Like it they had minor differences between them, alright I guess, but we're talking about like, humans, elves, dwarves, lizardmen and such, they have almost nothing in common lol.
I thought it had to do with half-breads. Since you can't do that cross-species thing. The truth is that you should probably not allow half-elves or half-orcs. Elves are an alien species that somewhat resemble humans, they should not be able to have babies with humans. Look at lions and tigers, they are both feline but the combination are sterile or worse.
A lot of it is also do to Tolkien, he says the race of Elves and race of Men or something to that extent. He also made half elves.
I honestly think they really don't know the difference between "race" and "species" and think they're on the same level, rather than nested for some reason. You hear that nonsense "there's only one race - the human race!" ... oh, so, humans are just one breed (race) out of a bigger species that includes chimps and bonobos then? People hate it when you point that out (and then the same people will berate anyone who feels scandalized by being related to a genuine reeing retard for some bizarre reason.)