Half-Elves

Half-Elves

Connors 09 May 2019 02:06

Okay - I have added half-elves to the Athas Major Races Page.

Remember, half-elves in Athas fit into the 'disliked by bother parentage groups' - hence the Wayward drawback.

They also get access to a couple of racial feats that standard half-elves would not :)

Have a look. Tell me what you think.

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Re: Half-Elves

Vamprey 11 May 2019 01:42

I feel like, as this is written no one will play a half-elf as they feel very much on the weak side compared to other races, given that racial bonuses to stats are reduced in other stats at the same amount. No other race I can think of has this. In addition they get virtually nothing else (in addition to PHB) except a Wild Talent. TO me it just feels like you are completely counteracting the stats bonus that every other race gets, which is a huge penalty.

Half-Elf Feature:??? still needs to be written unless it is just a half-elven racial feat.

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Re: Half-Elves

Connors 13 May 2019 01:56

I am not quite sure what you mean.

We have applied racial penalties to ALL races, that is what our drawbacks to; half-elves get the advantage of where to apply those penalties.

At this stage half-elves are ahead of PHB b/c they gain a Wild Talent as extra. Only b/c I have not been into the PHB yet. To keep the PHB races even, I have paired Wild Talent with a usual subrace or race feature and you get one or the other. Meaning in a none-psionic world, the race is still balanced.

Half-elves I guess are based upon choice. I am not sure about the counteracting stat bonus you mean.

Obviously, I am not done with this one. I have to put that feature in vs the Wild Talent. I can't recall half-elven features, but I was thinking the proficiency choice?

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Re: Half-Elves

Vamprey 13 May 2019 03:11

Ah ok so where an elf say gets fragile and gets the penalty for that, the half elf gets the choice, now it makes sense to me.

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Re: Half-Elves

Connors 13 May 2019 03:51

Yep. I could have listed all 6 exact drawbacks, but I even added the flexibility of choosing two scores to go down 1 each, which may be too good to be honest ;)

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