They and half-gnomes also exist in Kingdoms of Kalamar if I remember correctly as well. I think they also did a mixed version if elves and orcs were crossbred too.
I assume they expected big sales because both have some popularity and grog/nerd appreciation (especially spelljammer). same reason they whored out ravenloft.
to be fair, paizo also did it for the catchy "ABC" of character creation (ancestry, background, class), otherwise they'd probably would've gone with species too (otoh they also use heritage, which still makes more sense, so who knows)
It didn't help that WotC gave the middle finger to the original creators of Dragonlance and Spelljammer and that the likes of Margaret Weis made it a hobby to blast WotC on Twitter over how low quality the new Dragonlance and Spelljammer are. Another thing I will like to add is how WotC desperately wants the hip, progressive Tumblr audience instead of the die hard fans that they had before. One problem. The progressive crowd is really, really anal when it comes to respecting the rights of creators and artists over that of corporations. This group of people tend not to like a multi-million dollar corporation walking all over the creators and making money off their work while cutting them out of a deal. Good job Wizards you absolute fucking dumbasses.
That would just make them all separate species, but part of the same genus as humans, in the same way that wolves, dogs, coyotes and jackals can call interbreed because they are all part of the genus Canis, despite being different species within it. Humans are part of the genus Homo, where we are the species Homo Sapiens, and which also includes several other extinct species, such Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalensis (Neanderthals).
They were introduced in Dark Sun, where they were known as the Mul. They were bred as a slave race and are actually taller than normal humans, as well as physically stronger and hardier. They were usually hairless (or at least had little hair) in Dark Sun, though, since dwarves in that setting were actually depicted as being completely bald. They were also sterile and had a tendency to kill their mothers at birth, for no real reason than just because Dark Sun was grimdark like that.
If the book isn't out yet, the sales data won't be in yet. I assume they're counting pre-orders or social media engaugement.
Since when? From Five Nights at Freddy's to Star Wars, they love when popular IPs are taken from their original "problematic" creators and handed over to soulless corpos who will bend the knee appease the outrage mobs of Twitter and Reddit.
Only when it is a good look for them. Difference with those IP's compared to Dragonlance is that one of Dragonlance's creators is a woman and she is raising hell over being shafted by WotC. Because Weis is higher up on the progressive stack due to the sole fact that she is a woman means that the progressive D&D crowd have to not take the side of the soulless corporation for once unless they look like traitors to the progressive cause for not defending a female creator.
They also didn't get that the old fans liked Ravenloft the way it was.
holy shit what page is that on?
The 3E installments weren't great, but they were a hell of a lot closer to original Ravenloft than 5E. Between that and the godawful 5E/Legend of the Five Rings crossover (which was pants on head retarded)... it's like they're completely unable to conceive of worldbuilding that doesn't fit into their little headspace.
Oh God, don't tell the employees of WotC that the original Fallout games had the retard playthroughs where you can be a retard and everyone in the game made fun of you for it.
I dunno if Black Hat Matt was a kiddie diddler. I do know he got turfed from RPGnet for sexual harassment, and it is my strong opinion that the staff there ran interference for him till it got too noisy to block out.
I really don't doubt it. Considering he was accused, never denied it, and Beast's entire shtick was him writing about young kids running away, and even included a child molester as a hero? I'm starting to see some connections. RPG.net, like most places, are incestuous pits of that kind of covering for each other.
Yet more proof that the author has never played a tabletop RPG in his or her fucking life. Christ, I'm glad I skipped 5 entirely....
I knew Beast was a trashfire, but it actually incentivizes noncery?!
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Ehhhh, that remains at Trashfire rather than full Pedo. Still bad.
Still typical White Wolf there, honestly. Not the first time it had a kiddy diddler character either. Go look up the Black Dog game "Hol" One of the character templates is for a pedophile monk.
Oh yea, Deviant is one of the better games lately, very customizable even in it's bad guys.
Speaking WoD has anyone played Genius? it looks really fucking fun, and the core concept is really cool, but its a fan game so I have to wonder.RPG Writeups — Beast: The Primordial
It's a long read, but well worth it. You can feel the frustration.
It doesn't outright state it, but this being a World of Darkness game, you can custom tailor your 'feeding' to some extent. The game doesn't stop you from making someone who feeds off stalking little boys.
But in the supplement, it has a a canon kiddy diddler Beast. The book makes sure to constantly state Beasts are not bad guys.
It doesn't help that later on, after all this, the book just straight up says 'Yeah, Beasts are supposed to be troons and Muslims. They're outsiders, you just need to like, learn lessons from them, wypeepo."
EDIT: Ironically, I hadn't heard of Deviant until reading this. I expected much worse from the title. I was pleasantly surprised to find it was basically World of Darkness: Double Cross or Galerians.
I've run into someone who's about to GM a Mage/Genius crossover. Sadly, I'm not a player, but I'll get back to you on what things do or don't explode.
