What's With All The Half Elves?

[GrandMajora]

Okay, so ever since Larian removed the inherent racial bonuses from the game, I think the general consensus was that Half Elves are just objectively worse than full Elves. Which begs the question of why I continue to see so many people playing as one in multiplayer?

Is there some exploitable feature that Half Elves get which I have overlooked? Because from what I remember, full Elves get most, if not all the same benefits, plus they live about 6-7 times longer.

[Brian_the_Brute]

Another factor for choosing 1/2 elves as the most popular character in BG3 some may have overlooked is the default look of your TAV when you go through the character creator. There are many that might just take the default and not go in and customize everything.

The 1/2 elf TAV starting appearance is just being shown as the most popular and people gravitated towards, based on the statistics. There are some other race choices that obviously default to "a more diverse look ", but they would appeal more only to a minority of people playing the game and therefore likely had fewer people making those selections.

It's just human nature to find self-similarity to be more attractive and this just might have skewed the selections enough for half-elf to be the most popular. I think if the starting TAV (head model / implied real world ethnicity) was random vs. static, the results might have been different in which is most popular.

[Quillithe]

Originally posted by TaKo:

Originally posted by GrandMajora:

I'm a role player first and foremost.

Originally posted by GrandMajora:

which is why I'm confused about why people would voluntarily choose to play an inferior, mixed breed like a Half Elf, when they could be a proud and noble pure blood.

unless this was meant as a joke these statements contradict each other quite a bit

Not if he's role playing a kinda racist elf

So just an elf really

[Wokelander]

Originally posted by Lord Adorable:

Originally posted by Jaeleth:

I would replace "a min-maxer", for "an RPG player"...
Whether it's a min maxer or not, RPG is definitely NOT casual gaming.

New game just dropped. I call it "Baldur's Gatekeeper".

... Wasn't that actually the name of the cheat editor for BG 1 & 2? 😂

[Super Cosmic Space Magnet]

there are lots of half elves because elves keep inexplicably looking at humans and going "sure why not"

You'd think given how much species-mixing there is in D&D everyone would've sorta morphed into hybrids of everything and created a general species of humanoid - like how we have moggies among cats.

[harken23]

I'd like to meet the undoubtedly fearless parents of the first half-ogre.

[TheClosetSkeleton]

Originally posted by Super Cosmic Space Magnet:

there are lots of half elves because elves keep inexplicably looking at humans and going "sure why not"

You'd think given how much species-mixing there is in D&D everyone would've sorta morphed into hybrids of everything and created a general species of humanoid - like how we have moggies among cats.

The gods, looking down on mortals : "Why do they keep ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ each other?"

[Detective Costeau]

I have to admit, it is pretty funny to think that 90% of the sorcerer population exists because people in D&D universes apparently just cannot stop boinking dragons and demons and gods only know what else.

[GrandMajora]

Originally posted by Quillithe:

Not if he's role playing a kinda racist elf

So just an elf really

One of my recurring elf characters is named 'Alkoric', and yes, he is an elven supremacist, who harbors immense hatred for Humans as a species.

He was originally a Necromancer, but I've since begun using him more as a Druid.

[Lord Farquad]

Half elves are better than kobolds tbh

[GrandMajora]

Originally posted by Lord Cumquad:

Half elves are better than kobolds tbh

Kobolds have the love and support of Dragons looking after them.

What do Half Elves have?

[Lord Farquad]

Originally posted by GrandMajora:

Originally posted by Lord Cumquad:

Half elves are better than kobolds tbh

Kobolds have the love and support of Dragons looking after them.

What do Half Elves have?

Actual family?

[GrandMajora]

Originally posted by Lord Cumquad:

Actual family?

An actual family that they don't completely fit in with, and with one parent inevitably dying about 7 times faster than the other.

Oh, also, Kobolds get reincarnation too.

[Mojo]

Because 1/4 Elves arent available...

XD

[Lord Farquad]

Originally posted by GrandMajora:

Originally posted by Lord Cumquad:

Actual family?

An actual family that they don't completely fit in with, and with one parent inevitably dying about 7 times faster than the other.

Oh, also, Kobolds get reincarnation too.

And they are slaves to dragons. While a half-elf is not

[GrandMajora]

Originally posted by Lord Cumquad:

And they are slaves to dragons. While a half-elf is not

With how many people have tried to seduce dragons, or are the descendants of those who seduced dragons, does that really sound like such a bad deal?

Obviously, dragons must be pretty desirable creatures in the world of D&D.