Taja the Barbarian |
Officially, it's all up to the GM.
Since Half-Elves don't typically live anywhere near as long as Elves, I personally don't think they can take this heritage..
Half-Elf
Source Core Rulebook pg. 58
Your elven blood runs particularly strong, granting you features far more elven than those of a typical half-elf. You may also have been raised among elves, steeped in your elven ancestors’ heritage. You gain the benefits of the elf heritage of your elven parent or ancestors. You typically can’t select a heritage that depends on or improves an elven feature you don’t have. For example, you couldn’t gain the cavern elf’s darkvision ability if you didn’t have low-light vision. In these cases, at the GM’s discretion, you might gain a different benefit.Special You can take this feat only at 1st level, and you can’t retrain out of this feat or into this feat.
Aging:Source Character Guide pg. 25
In your long life, you’ve dabbled in many paths and many styles. Choose a class other than your own. You gain the multiclass dedication feat for that class, even though you don’t meet its level prerequisite. You must still meet its other prerequisites to gain the feat.
- Elf: 'Elves reach physical adulthood around the age of 20, though they aren’t considered to be fully emotionally mature by other elves until closer to the passing of their first century, once they’ve experienced more, held several occupations, and outlived a generation of shorter-lived people. A typical elf can live to around 600 years old.'
- Half-Elf: 'Half-elves live longer than other humans, often reaching an age around 150 years. This causes some of them to fear friendship and romance with humans, knowing that they’ll likely outlive their companions.'
Rysky |
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Actually it's been clarified and added to the next set of errata
The design and development teams have clarified that the ancient elf heritage (page 25) requires an elven lifespan (a feature that half-elves do not have) and thus cannot be selected by half-elves using the Elf Atavism feat (Core Rulebook 58), only by full elves. Clarifying text has been added to the errata for this book.
From the additional resources blog.
Gortle |
Actually it's been clarified and added to the next set of errataQuote:The design and development teams have clarified that the ancient elf heritage (page 25) requires an elven lifespan (a feature that half-elves do not have) and thus cannot be selected by half-elves using the Elf Atavism feat (Core Rulebook 58), only by full elves. Clarifying text has been added to the errata for this book.From the additional resources blog.
I couldn't find your reference.
This is for now a PFS ruling which is not the same, but yes I see the balance reasons. Elf Atavism is perhaps the strongest Elf option and giving it to half elves maybe a bit too much. However this multiclass flexibility has been the traditional advatage of half elves right from the earliest editions of D&D.
It doesn't seem right to me to rule it out.