D&D (2024) Half Race Appreciation Society: Half Elf most popular race choice in BG3

[Scribe]

wasn't there templates in previous editions, how were they balanced there?

Level adjustment no?

 

[Remathilis]

wasn't there templates in previous editions, how were they balanced?

Experience point penalties. A half-dragon human who was 3rd level was treated as 5th level, so a 3rd level half-dragon fighter was considered to be a powerful as a 5th level human wizard. And if you believe that, I got a bridge in Neverwinter to sell you.

 

[Yaarel]

Level adjustment no?

Level adjustments are a bad mechanic. Too powerful at low levels, too weak at high levels.

Mix-and-match via comparable swaps is the only viable mechanical.

 

[Remathilis]

Feat Tax would be appropriate in that scenario. Fey Touched is in Tashas right?

Please point me to the level 1 feat that gives me fire resistance, darkvision, and three bonus spells per day.

 

[Scribe]

Level adjustments are a bad mechanic. Too powerful at low levels, too weak at high levels.

Mix-and-match via comparable swaps is the only viable mechanical.

Given Fey Touched could be applied to any plane, your statement lacks the objectivity you fell it has.

 

[Scribe]

Please point me to the level 1 feat that gives me fire resistance, darkvision, and three bonus spells per day.

I thought it was a question of gaining it later, not level 1

 

[CreamCloud0]

Experience point penalties. A half-dragon human who was 3rd level was treated as 5th level, so a 3rd level half-dragon fighter was considered to be a powerful as a 5th level human wizard. And if you believe that, I got a bridge in Neverwinter to sell you.

i would suggest as an updated alternative to that as adding a % increase to exp for levelling (or additional milestones per level) except i suspect that absolutely no-one would follow it as the level dissonance between players would just be a hassle for groups to account for

 

[Remathilis]

i would suggest as an updated alternative to that as adding a % increase to exp for levelling (or additional milestones per level) except i suspect that absolutely no-one would follow it as the level dissonance between players would just be a hassle for groups to account for

Suggest away.

 

[Yaarel]

Given Fey Touched could be applied to any plane, your statement lacks the objectivity you fell it has.

A feat tax to play a Human/Elf? No, thank you.

No, that's not helpful at all. Other games have a build a bear species, no thanks.

Presumably, the 2024 Players Handbook will have an example of a Human/Elf. Players can use the multispecies rules to build a Human/Elf with different traits, or conveniently use the pregen as-is.

By dividing species traits into feats, players can decide for themselves which species feats to take for their multispecies characters.

 

[Yaarel]

i would suggest as an updated alternative to that as adding a % increase to exp for levelling (or additional milestones per level) except i suspect that absolutely no-one would follow it as the level dissonance between players would just be a hassle for groups to account for

I use neither xp nor milestones.

I count encounters per level.

As DM, I prefer to keep all the player characters the same level.