I've never been into D&D type games, but isn't it common for people to use old versions or just make up their own rules if the ruleset they're using isn't working for them for whatever reason?
Yeah, same boat here — isn’t the whole point that people can play however the hell they want? I suppose next Monopoly will ban house rules as inequitable holdovers from our racist history or at least say only black players can take the pile of money people put on Free Parking.
Oh, I see. Using halves must have been too limiting. I totes needed justification to claim lineage from 128 races, species, deities, personalities, and tulpas.
I guess you could stat your whole family tree and present your justification for your weird stats to your DM, but from what I can see they're just salty about the word 'half' even though they've done absolutely nothing to address the fact that their system isn't tailored to care about anything further back than one generation.
Options for creating characters descended from more than one species are not being removed from Dungeons & Dragons
Per this new system, rather than creating characters whose mixed lineage grants them some unique appearances, traits, and abilities, players will now simply base their character’s stats on only one of their parent races, with the only elements actually affected by a character being biracial are their appearances and natural lifespans.
So they're removing the options. Which is all I seem to hear about D&D these days: providing less content and justifying it as excising wrongthink.
An ancient indigenous spirit of unasked and undetermined gender, still haunting the colonized castle grounds until avenged, reaches out (with consent so as not to cause offense or micro aggression) pointing towards the diverse party of arrayed virtue champions and utters. "Avenge they."
See, I was thinking that there were some inherent mechanical and basic biological flaws to the old model with "half" offspring. Pathfinder 1st (edition) had some interesting approaches for tackling heritage. Still a little messy, it didn't try to go at it too hard to the point of making it excruciating for actual game play.
I guess they were mainly trying to change the mechanics while still trying to claim brownie points by slathering the PR-explanation with woke talking points.
Not that I expect their execution to go well, given how things have been run for a while there now.
I'm down with this solely because the provided example goes for the one joke just about every tabletop group has ever made: What do you get when you have the child of a halfling and a gnome (bonus points would have been awarded if the example called it a Half-Halfling or Quarterling)
I've never been into D&D type games, but isn't it common for people to use old versions or just make up their own rules if the ruleset they're using isn't working for them for whatever reason?
Yeah, same boat here — isn’t the whole point that people can play however the hell they want? I suppose next Monopoly will ban house rules as inequitable holdovers from our racist history or at least say only black players can take the pile of money people put on Free Parking.
Yes. Rule Zero is "The DM is always right." And rule 0.5 is "All rules are optional. Including this one."
You don't. You pirate an earlier version.
I’m sure some college educated corporate moron was the one to see this as racist. Any players that saw it that way needs to find a new hobby
Oh, I see. Using halves must have been too limiting. I totes needed justification to claim lineage from 128 races, species, deities, personalities, and tulpas.
I just want to play an Orctoroon.
I want to play a Beholder Hobbit mix.
and that is how you get a gibbering mouther or some other aberration. Damn Wizards. Can't keep their spells in their labs.
Those lonely wizards with all that time on their hands.
I would actually consider that an improvement as it would allow for more flexibility.
But no, it looks like it still only cares about your two parents. What's it called again, when you divide something by two?
I guess you could stat your whole family tree and present your justification for your weird stats to your DM, but from what I can see they're just salty about the word 'half' even though they've done absolutely nothing to address the fact that their system isn't tailored to care about anything further back than one generation.
So they're removing the options. Which is all I seem to hear about D&D these days: providing less content and justifying it as excising wrongthink.
That sounds like Wizards....
They're chasing new customers and dumbing it down for them. Why else make that shitty movie?
so you just did the same thing but with more faggy buzzwords
Eventually monsters are going to be renamed. Something like Indigenous non-humanoid species, or unhoused denizens of Native tombs.
with pronouns
A skeletal pronoun creature shambles toward you moaning out "was/were"... Roll for initiative.
AhHah!
An ancient indigenous spirit of unasked and undetermined gender, still haunting the colonized castle grounds until avenged, reaches out (with consent so as not to cause offense or micro aggression) pointing towards the diverse party of arrayed virtue champions and utters. "Avenge they."
See, I was thinking that there were some inherent mechanical and basic biological flaws to the old model with "half" offspring. Pathfinder 1st (edition) had some interesting approaches for tackling heritage. Still a little messy, it didn't try to go at it too hard to the point of making it excruciating for actual game play.
I guess they were mainly trying to change the mechanics while still trying to claim brownie points by slathering the PR-explanation with woke talking points.
Not that I expect their execution to go well, given how things have been run for a while there now.
I'm down with this solely because the provided example goes for the one joke just about every tabletop group has ever made: What do you get when you have the child of a halfling and a gnome (bonus points would have been awarded if the example called it a Half-Halfling or Quarterling)