The modern anti-racist believes that people should only breed within their own race, not associate with people from other races, and should treat white people with complete and utter disdain.
I'm not even sure it's that. I haven't played DnD, so I could be speaking out of turn, but a cursory search seems to indicate that you can still have mixed parentage characters. It just doesn't effect your stats. It also seems they recently removed negative racial attributes...
What's a bet that is the real rub - the implication that your ancestry could influence your capabilities.
Assuming the table is full of critters, progressives and/or retards yes you could. Those of us that have played long before it turned into a lifestyle brand will cheerily ram your tarasque mini up your fundament and walk
away
Edit: I do not want to see a ven diagram of the three groups mentioned above, I suspect there's a lot of overlap
Now I want to see a campaign where some pathetic monster is overrunning the known world because they claim to be some ridiculously powerful monster instead.
Races will definitely go next, they'll be "body types" or "hero forms".
It's funny how 'follow the science' has led right back to new-age hippie woo about humans as liminal, energy wave-forms inhabiting interchangeable meat shells. So dumb. Then for all the talk about keeping Christ and religion out of everything, their nonsense god has to be pushed into every possible orifice, especially where it most clearly doesn't belong.
I took this a different way. The mindset of these subversives is that they want us to think all races should be mixed. No individuality. Just a mass of mud people.
"Yeah there's half, thirds, quarter mixes of elves and orcs and humans and goblins and dwarfs. So what? All bodies are equal and love is love!" (i.e. there's nothing special about a "half-orc", everyone can have the same stats)
It's those kinds of surface ideals that they put into propagandafiction. In reality of course they do segregate.
There's also the stupider explanation that "Half-X" is often used as insult and that's just not acceptable.
I've actually heard this about black people having kids with white people, arguing that in 2 generations it erases their blackness - what ever that means.
It takes way more than 2 generations. Try 10 or 12. You can see it in lots of "white" people today, in the jaw bone and shape of nose. Often you miss it at first. They call themselves white but they're probably 1/8 black.
Half orcs in previous editions were exclusively products of rape. This move is perfectly in keeping with their recent claims that orcs represent blacks.
Given the left's omnipresent desire to memory hole black criminality, one example of which is their predilection for raping women of other races, you get the result.
Because in DND blacks are portrayed as largely middle eastern or aboriginal cultures.
Whereas orcs behave in precisely the same manner as American blacks. Rapacious, misbegotten, burning plunderers whose concept of property consists of "it mine", with no ability to plan further than the last time they were hungry.
Half orcs in previous editions were exclusively products of rape.
First-generation half-orcs were. Eberron makes it quite clear that there's a marked (pun intended) difference between mongrel half-orcs and true bloodline half-orcs who've descended from other half-orcs for centuries.
it's dumb because the D&D orc is taken wholesale from the tolkien orc... and the tolkien orc was not a representative of blacks, but was created by magic that corrupted high elves making them lust for power and growing them an aversion to concepts like private property...
in other words, orcs aren't blacks... they're communists.
Funnier still. DnD orcs aren't even that close to elves. They were lifted thematically but they do have an origin of their own as a race. Gruumsh, their god, created them to be a plague on all other races out of spite for the beauty of the elves, and hatred of the elf god Correllon who put out one of Gruumsh's eyes.
The don't look like they're failing to me. "Go woke, go broke" is a pleasant sounding myth that righties like to tell each other. The truth is that they can't go broke any more than Pravda could have "gone broke" in the old USSR. These media and gaming companies are now propaganda organs of the State, they promote its ideology and so they aren't going anywhere.
They absolutely are going broke. Hasbro has no other profitable divisions besides DND right now, and they took an enormous dive a while back when they tried to review the OGL, pissing off just about everyone in the RPG community.
While accidentally tipping their hand towards an intent to turn tabletop games into a subscription service.
ah i remember bits of that debacle tried to pull the your content is mine too if i remember right as well. they seem to fail to realize they will make thier own grave with this move... subscription service shit needs to go.
yup bussnis deals 101 delibrately high ball then walk it back to give the illusion of compramise by offering a deal closr to the ammount you wanted all along
for these people everything is sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, that's the core idea behind intersectional feminism.
move into the city, that's gentrification, you racist nazi bigot.
move out of the city, that's white flight, you racist nazi bigot.
rationalizing all behavior as a "sin" or wrongdoing is a cult tactic used to browbeat people into shameful compliance. never cater to them, for the allies today will be the pariahs of tomorrow. look at what they did to far-leftist JK rowling for not being far left enough.
k this is lack of sleep talking but my mind twisted it FATAL style,,, given the level of bs these days i half expect to see rolll for period to be in the ruleset someplace...
How is there not just a fork of this or something? My understanding most of what they could come after is just stuff borrowed from Tolkien and the like and would never stick. Or I don’t know, just play with a 30 year old rule book because who gives a fuck if the illustrious DND overlords changed something.
There is, tons of them, though the indie RPG scene is as faggy as all other indie scenes.
There's an entire genre of RPG that is just rewriting old editions of D&D because the editing and formatting of that game have always been atrocious (my baby, 4e, being the exception, obviously).
It's occasionally a hard sell, though, especially expanding outwards to new blood.
They're all interested in the latest and "greatest" edition, because that's what the marketing tells them is the best and only thing worth talking about (see saturation on social media).
I'm part of a group of four that are playing basic D&D via Old School Essentials and it's been kind of difficult to convince others, the same way it might be difficult to get people to watch an old movie or read an old book.
One could say the person who's so easily swayed by shiny keys shaking in front of them isn't the kind of person you'd want to play with (of which I would wholeheartedly agree) but if anything, more people are falling into the Consoom mindset with each passing generation.
Ultimately, if they aren't at least a little bit introspective of what they want out of a game, they probably aren't going to be worth playing with long-term.
I would think edition turnover would be a good time to recruit. I didn't follow WotC into 5e and it's probably the best thing to happen to me, RPG-wise.
I never knew enough people interested to play growing up, but was invited to 5E as a player a while ago which I thought was just okay. My least favorite part was combat. I felt like I was playing a less enjoyable version of a video game tactical RPG. I took initiative to get the OSE kickstarter a while ago and the OGL drama was the perfect opportunity to strike and offer to DM, armed with some old TSR modules picked up from ebay and a pledge that I wouldn't demand people memorize rules beyond what's needed for their character.
We like it a lot. There's a lot less of "these are your options" and more "what would your like your character to try?", which I think the lack of a very detailed menu leads to. Combat is much more deadly and I think this leads to a more realistic behavior of trying to be sneaky and clever instead of just using brute force. When fights do break out, things are just tense knowing that doing something stupid will have consequences. This also leads to every round being "important" and, in terms of what's happening in-game, they feel more badass as each move is a seemingly good one because, well, they have to be.
The spellcaster wasn't very happy with how completely hopeless they are in early levels but I think they've grown into it, and I think it's lead to some interesting emergent storytelling as the rest of the team defends the old guy with the stick with the promise of great magical favors to be granted in the future. Speaking of, the limited spell list doesn't really tickle the imagination like the post Level 6 spells in other editions but we haven't broken out the house rules yet. OSE has an "advanced" tier which I think mirrors AD&D's expanded spell levels but I'll pick that up some other time.
It sounds like you've got a good handle on things. In addition to getting the expanded spell rules for OSE, you might check out Maze Rats or Knave, both of which have "system agnostic" magic systems that are almost entirely utility, no damage. They're both a little goofy and may not mesh well with a gritty, Conan-esqe setting, though.
You could also go turbo-old-school and have players run multiple characters and/or hirelings. Gives the wizard player a way to help the party protect his glass cannon.
OSE sounds gritty like Pathfinder. And I think that's why I'm gravitating to Paizo's offerings ... I grew up with the red box, the green box and the black box of D&D 1e ... drifted into AD&D 2e ... and then drifted away until 5e.
You know lovecraft wrote stories about how half race mixing was abhorent and when the mc finds out he is of mixed race he basically has a mental breakdown. Glad to see they're finding value in lovecraft's beliefs.
Older books are not cheap :) I do have a few of those.
I guess a lot of people either don't care because they've played only the 5'th edition or they are playing 3.5.
The thing with DnD is that at the end of the day all this woke social push does not matter. It will not come up in your table game and it is up to you to find a good group. Even those on the left will not bring up any of this racist crap, trigger warnings, trans rights are human rights or have a wheel chair. Even center-left people want immersion and a break from politics.
All of this happened before, back in the Soviet Union. Even the people connected to the Party didn't believe any of the bullshit that the state media was promoting. Everyone knew when and where to keep their mouths shut and when it was safe to speak openly.
Oh ok. I had heard stories of segregated tables or some really woke crap at conventions but I guess playing with friends if someone tries to play and push that crap they can be kicked out.
So far the worst mine has done is put up a sign that Star Wars is for everyone. I almost wanted to ask who is stopping me from buying Star Wars content
Just switch to based Warhammer Fantasy 2nd edition.
(I know...there is a 4th ed, but I've only played it once. It's difficult to find a group for that one. And no one is touching 3rd ed at all. It has fallen off the planet)
You will not have enough time to get the lore. You should have started 20 years ago. :D Arch has some good videos. Leutin is also pretty good. The Remembrancer has succinct vids too
It's like a wildfire jumping from one IP to the next, burning down everything in its path. Eventually everything will have been subverted, rebooted and re-imagined into compliance with State ideology.
Fits right in with "this ugly, brutish, dark-skinned race of ontologically evil creatures who revel in death and destruction are clearly meant to represent black people" as an antiracist viewpoint.
No one plays the gay versions. Theyre riding the wave of the movie to try and drum buzz.
What globohomo doesnt get is that every property it ruins reminds countless people of how much they miss a society ran by White males. Younger consoomers fantasize about being part of things when they were new and good, and come up with any pussyfooting reasons they can to vent about how shitty things are today without addressing WHY.
All culture war sub-news will get them is a pump in the resell value of rulebooks written by White males, and a sense of longing for the past.
On one side this people are morons arguing for race segregation in the name of inclusion on the other I did not like the idea of half-species. Even in nature the results are mostly infertile so having a mix of species never clicked for me. Having one character was fine if it came with a cool background but that is about it.
On top of that you just know they are going to keep tieflings. Not sure why but leftists seem to identify with them.
Well, in Trek they tried to ret-con this in TNG by introducing the idea that there was a single progenitor humanoid race billions of years ago that seeded the galaxy with their genetic material. That's why so many planets look earthlike, and why so many aliens are humanoid.
Without this, we get no Jarael or Chantique (KOTOR is best era. Fight me), and Twi’ileks become harder to explain (they still don’t quite work with the other human-offshoots, but they can interbreed now, so there’s that)…
So… It works, even if it is a bit dubious…
Though I suspect most “Disney Star Wars” era fans wouldn’t even know that Mandalorians were originally a species, so I suppose all of this got rather lost along the way…
In the old books, Gary Gygax suggests that the world should be human centric. I forget his logic for it, but it does make things interesting. Elves in LOTR are very interesting and amazing, elves in DnD are just pointy ears humans.
Flavor-wise, it's heavily Tolkien inspired. By playing a human, you keep the fantasy races mysterious and rare.
Mechanically, demi-humans had lower level caps and were generally not as good as human equivalents (elves are sorta fighter/mage multiclasses; dwarves are weaker fighters with gold sense; etc.). Their function was to be played when you rolled bad stats. A bad statted character wasn't likely to survive to high levels anyway, so either way, they exit early and you roll a new guy.
If I remember correctly in AD&D humans did not have any advantage while the non-humans had all sort of bonuses unlike in 3.5, so Gygax gave them level caps in order to keep the world human centric. Why would you play a boring human if elves had sleep resistance, dark vision and could spot hidden doors without searching for them.
If you did not plan for a long campaign then playing as an non-human was not only ok but desirable.
Hopefully (though it would never happen) this means that Tieflings (and Aasamir) as going as well, since they're half-demon and half-angel. I want to see the massive explosion across the D&D internet scene when people lose the ability to play their quirky half-demon girl who constantly pranks the party but secretly has a heart of gold underneath.
Pretty odd they consider inter-species breeding to be "inherently racist"...
The modern anti-racist believes that people should only breed within their own race, not associate with people from other races, and should treat white people with complete and utter disdain.
I'm not even sure it's that. I haven't played DnD, so I could be speaking out of turn, but a cursory search seems to indicate that you can still have mixed parentage characters. It just doesn't effect your stats. It also seems they recently removed negative racial attributes...
What's a bet that is the real rub - the implication that your ancestry could influence your capabilities.
Yep. I forgot the term they use for it now, instead of racial stats it is now cultural stats or some such nonsense.
You could. And it'd be legit. At your table. I'd be telling you to geddafuggouddaherewitdat at mine.
I'd be laughing. RPGs need a little humor.
Tiny but mighty.
he's on the fantasy equivalent of pcp
Assuming the table is full of critters, progressives and/or retards yes you could. Those of us that have played long before it turned into a lifestyle brand will cheerily ram your tarasque mini up your fundament and walk away
Edit: I do not want to see a ven diagram of the three groups mentioned above, I suspect there's a lot of overlap
Now I want to see a campaign where some pathetic monster is overrunning the known world because they claim to be some ridiculously powerful monster instead.
Turning into tourney fags from super smash bros.
No races! No classes! No dragon! No dice! Dungeon only!
Races will definitely go next, they'll be "body types" or "hero forms".
It's funny how 'follow the science' has led right back to new-age hippie woo about humans as liminal, energy wave-forms inhabiting interchangeable meat shells. So dumb. Then for all the talk about keeping Christ and religion out of everything, their nonsense god has to be pushed into every possible orifice, especially where it most clearly doesn't belong.
I took this a different way. The mindset of these subversives is that they want us to think all races should be mixed. No individuality. Just a mass of mud people.
"Yeah there's half, thirds, quarter mixes of elves and orcs and humans and goblins and dwarfs. So what? All bodies are equal and love is love!" (i.e. there's nothing special about a "half-orc", everyone can have the same stats)
It's those kinds of surface ideals that they put into
propagandafiction. In reality of course they do segregate.There's also the stupider explanation that "Half-X" is often used as insult and that's just not acceptable.
I've actually heard this about black people having kids with white people, arguing that in 2 generations it erases their blackness - what ever that means.
Yea I’ve heard that too. Dumb.
It takes way more than 2 generations. Try 10 or 12. You can see it in lots of "white" people today, in the jaw bone and shape of nose. Often you miss it at first. They call themselves white but they're probably 1/8 black.
But don't suggest birds of a feather should flock together if you're white, or you'll get Dilberted.
Half orcs in previous editions were exclusively products of rape. This move is perfectly in keeping with their recent claims that orcs represent blacks.
Given the left's omnipresent desire to memory hole black criminality, one example of which is their predilection for raping women of other races, you get the result.
why would orcs represent black people when there are black humans in the setting? i know they're retarded but this is something else.
Because in DND blacks are portrayed as largely middle eastern or aboriginal cultures.
Whereas orcs behave in precisely the same manner as American blacks. Rapacious, misbegotten, burning plunderers whose concept of property consists of "it mine", with no ability to plan further than the last time they were hungry.
First-generation half-orcs were. Eberron makes it quite clear that there's a marked (pun intended) difference between mongrel half-orcs and true bloodline half-orcs who've descended from other half-orcs for centuries.
I've played long enough that Eberron is new kid on the block, but fair enough.
it's dumb because the D&D orc is taken wholesale from the tolkien orc... and the tolkien orc was not a representative of blacks, but was created by magic that corrupted high elves making them lust for power and growing them an aversion to concepts like private property...
in other words, orcs aren't blacks... they're communists.
Funnier still. DnD orcs aren't even that close to elves. They were lifted thematically but they do have an origin of their own as a race. Gruumsh, their god, created them to be a plague on all other races out of spite for the beauty of the elves, and hatred of the elf god Correllon who put out one of Gruumsh's eyes.
The don't look like they're failing to me. "Go woke, go broke" is a pleasant sounding myth that righties like to tell each other. The truth is that they can't go broke any more than Pravda could have "gone broke" in the old USSR. These media and gaming companies are now propaganda organs of the State, they promote its ideology and so they aren't going anywhere.
They absolutely are going broke. Hasbro has no other profitable divisions besides DND right now, and they took an enormous dive a while back when they tried to review the OGL, pissing off just about everyone in the RPG community.
While accidentally tipping their hand towards an intent to turn tabletop games into a subscription service.
The writing is on the wall for WoTC.
ah i remember bits of that debacle tried to pull the your content is mine too if i remember right as well. they seem to fail to realize they will make thier own grave with this move... subscription service shit needs to go.
They did what BethSoft did. Pushed too hard at first, scaled it back to implement slower later. That's why Skyrim has so many paid mods now.
yup bussnis deals 101 delibrately high ball then walk it back to give the illusion of compramise by offering a deal closr to the ammount you wanted all along
ClosetDissident is correct. The federal money spigot keeps them immune to consequences, while it lasts.
Given that the dollar is itself approaching collapse, I don't think that's a big deal.
move into the city, that's gentrification, you racist nazi bigot.
move out of the city, that's white flight, you racist nazi bigot.
rationalizing all behavior as a "sin" or wrongdoing is a cult tactic used to browbeat people into shameful compliance. never cater to them, for the allies today will be the pariahs of tomorrow. look at what they did to far-leftist JK rowling for not being far left enough.
Not even joking I fully expect 6th edition to remove being able to fail a roll, maybe even make rolling period an optional feature.
k this is lack of sleep talking but my mind twisted it FATAL style,,, given the level of bs these days i half expect to see rolll for period to be in the ruleset someplace...
Roll for asshole circumference and vagina depth, please.
Maybe they will have affirmative action. Female and black characters get +1 to something.
How is there not just a fork of this or something? My understanding most of what they could come after is just stuff borrowed from Tolkien and the like and would never stick. Or I don’t know, just play with a 30 year old rule book because who gives a fuck if the illustrious DND overlords changed something.
That's what most people do.
or a book from the back of a truck.
There is, tons of them, though the indie RPG scene is as faggy as all other indie scenes.
There's an entire genre of RPG that is just rewriting old editions of D&D because the editing and formatting of that game have always been atrocious (my baby, 4e, being the exception, obviously).
It's occasionally a hard sell, though, especially expanding outwards to new blood.
They're all interested in the latest and "greatest" edition, because that's what the marketing tells them is the best and only thing worth talking about (see saturation on social media).
I'm part of a group of four that are playing basic D&D via Old School Essentials and it's been kind of difficult to convince others, the same way it might be difficult to get people to watch an old movie or read an old book.
One could say the person who's so easily swayed by shiny keys shaking in front of them isn't the kind of person you'd want to play with (of which I would wholeheartedly agree) but if anything, more people are falling into the Consoom mindset with each passing generation.
You can try pitching it with consoom buzzwords ("OSE is the Dark Souls of D&D!"): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z1eO8PjVoYA
Ultimately, if they aren't at least a little bit introspective of what they want out of a game, they probably aren't going to be worth playing with long-term.
I would think edition turnover would be a good time to recruit. I didn't follow WotC into 5e and it's probably the best thing to happen to me, RPG-wise.
How are you liking OSE? Are you coming to it from newer games or are you a greybeard?
I never knew enough people interested to play growing up, but was invited to 5E as a player a while ago which I thought was just okay. My least favorite part was combat. I felt like I was playing a less enjoyable version of a video game tactical RPG. I took initiative to get the OSE kickstarter a while ago and the OGL drama was the perfect opportunity to strike and offer to DM, armed with some old TSR modules picked up from ebay and a pledge that I wouldn't demand people memorize rules beyond what's needed for their character.
We like it a lot. There's a lot less of "these are your options" and more "what would your like your character to try?", which I think the lack of a very detailed menu leads to. Combat is much more deadly and I think this leads to a more realistic behavior of trying to be sneaky and clever instead of just using brute force. When fights do break out, things are just tense knowing that doing something stupid will have consequences. This also leads to every round being "important" and, in terms of what's happening in-game, they feel more badass as each move is a seemingly good one because, well, they have to be.
The spellcaster wasn't very happy with how completely hopeless they are in early levels but I think they've grown into it, and I think it's lead to some interesting emergent storytelling as the rest of the team defends the old guy with the stick with the promise of great magical favors to be granted in the future. Speaking of, the limited spell list doesn't really tickle the imagination like the post Level 6 spells in other editions but we haven't broken out the house rules yet. OSE has an "advanced" tier which I think mirrors AD&D's expanded spell levels but I'll pick that up some other time.
Overall, would recommend.
Awesome, thanks for the reply!
It sounds like you've got a good handle on things. In addition to getting the expanded spell rules for OSE, you might check out Maze Rats or Knave, both of which have "system agnostic" magic systems that are almost entirely utility, no damage. They're both a little goofy and may not mesh well with a gritty, Conan-esqe setting, though.
You could also go turbo-old-school and have players run multiple characters and/or hirelings. Gives the wizard player a way to help the party protect his glass cannon.
OSE sounds gritty like Pathfinder. And I think that's why I'm gravitating to Paizo's offerings ... I grew up with the red box, the green box and the black box of D&D 1e ... drifted into AD&D 2e ... and then drifted away until 5e.
4e? What are you? Some sort of retard?
>Core rules are a tactics game
>Roleplay happens through table talk, not a detailed mechanical system
>Is fun
4e is the only true successor to OD&D. 3.X fags cope and seethe. To answer your question, yeah probably.
TBHF, RP happens in any system. Rules are for combat.
You know lovecraft wrote stories about how half race mixing was abhorent and when the mc finds out he is of mixed race he basically has a mental breakdown. Glad to see they're finding value in lovecraft's beliefs.
So does this mean you can only have donkeys and horses as pack animals…. No more mules.
So with D&D catering more and more to weirdos who do t play it are the older books in high demand now?
Older books are not cheap :) I do have a few of those. I guess a lot of people either don't care because they've played only the 5'th edition or they are playing 3.5.
The thing with DnD is that at the end of the day all this woke social push does not matter. It will not come up in your table game and it is up to you to find a good group. Even those on the left will not bring up any of this racist crap, trigger warnings, trans rights are human rights or have a wheel chair. Even center-left people want immersion and a break from politics.
All of this happened before, back in the Soviet Union. Even the people connected to the Party didn't believe any of the bullshit that the state media was promoting. Everyone knew when and where to keep their mouths shut and when it was safe to speak openly.
Oh ok. I had heard stories of segregated tables or some really woke crap at conventions but I guess playing with friends if someone tries to play and push that crap they can be kicked out.
You can always be the DM and make the rules :)
I really need to find a group. My local comic book store has a massive tabletop gaming area. Maybe I’ll ask one of those groups.
My local comic book shop had a big tranny flag in the window. Hard nope on that one.
So far the worst mine has done is put up a sign that Star Wars is for everyone. I almost wanted to ask who is stopping me from buying Star Wars content
Good Star Wars content, or just content?
Star wars is for everyone? Alright, I'll take 4, 5, and 6. They can take 7, 8, and 9.
I present to you ... Season 3 of Critical Role.
Just switch to based Warhammer Fantasy 2nd edition.
(I know...there is a 4th ed, but I've only played it once. It's difficult to find a group for that one. And no one is touching 3rd ed at all. It has fallen off the planet)
I have some Warhammer YouTube videos to dive into. I want to know some lore before the show comes out
When is the show coming out?
I think next year.
You will not have enough time to get the lore. You should have started 20 years ago. :D Arch has some good videos. Leutin is also pretty good. The Remembrancer has succinct vids too
Cool. Thanks! Well I’ll do my best.
Warhammer Lore
I read the wikis for fun sometimes.
It's like a wildfire jumping from one IP to the next, burning down everything in its path. Eventually everything will have been subverted, rebooted and re-imagined into compliance with State ideology.
They already are. Trans/female space marines and whatnot.
It all comes full circle
some ideas are a real gas, eh?
The solutions from these ideas are quite final, though.
Fits right in with "this ugly, brutish, dark-skinned race of ontologically evil creatures who revel in death and destruction are clearly meant to represent black people" as an antiracist viewpoint.
How long until they remove the concept of different races entirely, then?
They'll remove races entirely. It will just be "body types."
No one plays the gay versions. Theyre riding the wave of the movie to try and drum buzz.
What globohomo doesnt get is that every property it ruins reminds countless people of how much they miss a society ran by White males. Younger consoomers fantasize about being part of things when they were new and good, and come up with any pussyfooting reasons they can to vent about how shitty things are today without addressing WHY.
All culture war sub-news will get them is a pump in the resell value of rulebooks written by White males, and a sense of longing for the past.
On one side this people are morons arguing for race segregation in the name of inclusion on the other I did not like the idea of half-species. Even in nature the results are mostly infertile so having a mix of species never clicked for me. Having one character was fine if it came with a cool background but that is about it.
On top of that you just know they are going to keep tieflings. Not sure why but leftists seem to identify with them.
Well, in Trek they tried to ret-con this in TNG by introducing the idea that there was a single progenitor humanoid race billions of years ago that seeded the galaxy with their genetic material. That's why so many planets look earthlike, and why so many aliens are humanoid.
Panspermia. Not a new concept by any means…
Star Wars did this too. Because it was getting too… “Messy”, otherwise (pre-Disney)…
Without this, we get no Jarael or Chantique (KOTOR is best era. Fight me), and Twi’ileks become harder to explain (they still don’t quite work with the other human-offshoots, but they can interbreed now, so there’s that)…
So… It works, even if it is a bit dubious…
Though I suspect most “Disney Star Wars” era fans wouldn’t even know that Mandalorians were originally a species, so I suppose all of this got rather lost along the way…
Is just a personal preference of mine. Not something I would make in to a rule.
Can someone come up with a new, non-woke IP and just obliterate D&D? Seems like it would be pretty easy to accomplish.
Accidentally based. You shouldn't be playing as anything other than human.
In the old books, Gary Gygax suggests that the world should be human centric. I forget his logic for it, but it does make things interesting. Elves in LOTR are very interesting and amazing, elves in DnD are just pointy ears humans.
Flavor-wise, it's heavily Tolkien inspired. By playing a human, you keep the fantasy races mysterious and rare.
Mechanically, demi-humans had lower level caps and were generally not as good as human equivalents (elves are sorta fighter/mage multiclasses; dwarves are weaker fighters with gold sense; etc.). Their function was to be played when you rolled bad stats. A bad statted character wasn't likely to survive to high levels anyway, so either way, they exit early and you roll a new guy.
If I remember correctly in AD&D humans did not have any advantage while the non-humans had all sort of bonuses unlike in 3.5, so Gygax gave them level caps in order to keep the world human centric. Why would you play a boring human if elves had sleep resistance, dark vision and could spot hidden doors without searching for them. If you did not plan for a long campaign then playing as an non-human was not only ok but desirable.
It just makes me miss the TSR D&D days. At least then the griping was about the game and it's ruleset, not asinine shit like this.
...Can't people JUST play 'full' Orcs instead?
Hopefully (though it would never happen) this means that Tieflings (and Aasamir) as going as well, since they're half-demon and half-angel. I want to see the massive explosion across the D&D internet scene when people lose the ability to play their quirky half-demon girl who constantly pranks the party but secretly has a heart of gold underneath.
Wait, what? Race mixing is bad now?
ConPro aligned with the feminized left once again.
Well yeah, but that's a good thing. It makes for a richer world.