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<blockquote data-quote="pu6elist" data-source="post: 6517377" data-attributes="member: 6787512"><p>The weapons are strictly flavour. Since they have long been disconnected from their dwarven brethren, it seemed to me unnatural that they are proficient with axes. Their slave life in the underworld, though, has made them proficient with picks, therefore, I wanted to actually substitute the axes with picks, keeping the hammers. Also, the crossbows are the weapon of choice for underdark ambushers.</p><p></p><p>Apart from that, yep, I also thought about resistances and resilience, just wanted to hear others' opinion. Furhtermore, I do not think that all PC's have to be so balanced that it would make them somewhat forcedly down- or upgraded. To me, D&D's flavour should really give all that distinction that makes it interesting to them to play. Therefore, it would not always be necessary to give a +2 and a +1 to Ability scores. What if my PC's want to play a fey campaign? Would sprites and pixies still have that minimum of 8 STR? Of course, not! Just a thought <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />. Currently I'm working on a "band of misfits" campaign, where I'd put medusa, yan-ti purebloods, and many others as playable races. Will they be so balanced in stats - definitely not. I already had a pixie in one of my campaigns, and her ability scores were very weird, which was compensated by more spells, based on pixie dust, which was a per-day resource, and so on and so forth. </p><p></p><p>Cheers, mate and thanks for the opinion. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pu6elist, post: 6517377, member: 6787512"] The weapons are strictly flavour. Since they have long been disconnected from their dwarven brethren, it seemed to me unnatural that they are proficient with axes. Their slave life in the underworld, though, has made them proficient with picks, therefore, I wanted to actually substitute the axes with picks, keeping the hammers. Also, the crossbows are the weapon of choice for underdark ambushers. Apart from that, yep, I also thought about resistances and resilience, just wanted to hear others' opinion. Furhtermore, I do not think that all PC's have to be so balanced that it would make them somewhat forcedly down- or upgraded. To me, D&D's flavour should really give all that distinction that makes it interesting to them to play. Therefore, it would not always be necessary to give a +2 and a +1 to Ability scores. What if my PC's want to play a fey campaign? Would sprites and pixies still have that minimum of 8 STR? Of course, not! Just a thought ;). Currently I'm working on a "band of misfits" campaign, where I'd put medusa, yan-ti purebloods, and many others as playable races. Will they be so balanced in stats - definitely not. I already had a pixie in one of my campaigns, and her ability scores were very weird, which was compensated by more spells, based on pixie dust, which was a per-day resource, and so on and so forth. Cheers, mate and thanks for the opinion. ;) [/QUOTE]
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