I welcome this kind of changes. D&D was always way too stereotypical. Dark Elf => Bastard. Orc => Brute. Elf => Wise. Even the alignment system used to be quite strictly interpret, leaving little room for interpretation in many cases.
Most famous dark elf? Drizzt Do'Urden anyone? The game itself wasn't "stereotypical". It was a set of rules by which you could tell stories. If they came out stereotypical, then that's the problem of the GM and/or the players. Rolemaster said it best when it said "If a rule doesn't fit with the story, the rule can be ignored.".
D&D was always to stereotypical (Score:3, Insightful)
I welcome this kind of changes. D&D was always way too stereotypical. Dark Elf => Bastard. Orc => Brute. Elf => Wise.
Even the alignment system used to be quite strictly interpret, leaving little room for interpretation in many cases.
Re:D&D was always to stereotypical (Score:3)
Most famous dark elf? Drizzt Do'Urden anyone? The game itself wasn't "stereotypical". It was a set of rules by which you could tell stories.
If they came out stereotypical, then that's the problem of the GM and/or the players. Rolemaster said it best when it said "If a rule doesn't fit with the story, the rule can be ignored.".