Originally Posted by Sozz
Originally Posted by Eldath
Originally Posted by Sozz
I'd remove Tieflings and Dragonborn as races all together and certainly put Elves above Humans.
It's funny how people have been saying that Gnomes are now superfluous, whenever I make up a world in my own head, it's the Halflings that I struggle to fit in somewhere, their culture is usually just Human to me.
So true. Just look at letsplayers on youtube. Everyone is running a tiefling. It's quite annoying. Dragonborn are just as cringe.
At least Half-orcs would be flavorful and not the special snowflake race.
As for halflings, they always strike me as peasants. They are basically small statured peasants. They still have more validity then gnomes though.
Originally Posted by Uncle Lester
...I'd remove humans altogether.
Let me clarify, I liked better when being a Tiefling or a Dragonborn meant some ancestor of yours had a Demonic or Draconic encounter, which manifested in you, so you'd be an Human-Tiefling or a Dwarf-Dragonborn, I struggle with them being their own races.

Does anyone know what a half-Tiefling looks like? Or a half-Dragonborn? Have they been retconned to have always been a part of FR history, I think BladeDancer mention that during one of the reboots, Asmodeus retconned Tieflings into their current state but it still strains my ability to view the world realistically.


Yeah, I agree. I'd much prefer "dilutable" blood. Planar or dragon. I really dislike that tiefling retcon, one of my favourite things about tieflings is that they're so diverse.You could have Annah, who almost looks human or clearly fiendish Ei-Vene with orange eyes and claws, or digitigrade tieflings, or ones that look almost like fiends. Different kinds of fiends. Devils, demons, yugoloths, rakshasas, hags... And manifest whatever trait of those. And now they're... quite uniform. (Credit where it's due though; I think Larian managed tieflings fairly well within the constraints of 5e lore and video game format. Especially custom tieflings. NPCs maybe less so.)

Could you explain something about dragonborn to me, though? I came to 5e straight from 2AD&D (with bits of 3/3.5e) and just accepted dragonborn, because in my D&D reading years ago I came across a very similar race (dragon descendants similar to planetouched). Yet recently I realized what I'd read was just homebrew and dragonborn didn't exist until 4e. But you're saying dragonborn used to be like old tieflings; was there such a race after all before The Great Mess of 4e?