Cap'n Kobold
Hero
That sounds quite logical. Even assuming that these alien species have roughly the same overall processing power as a human, the concept that one species is generally better at distinguishing and visualising audio cues, and another might be better at the thought patterns required for advanced mathematics makes sense. Or maybe most other alien races are tone deaf and it is humans who are generally more musical than the other peoples.We are not talking about an individuals capacity for certain intelligences, but an entire species. We are saying that there are groups of people who are born with a higher degree of musical ability or capacity for math as a biological truth of their existence.
Now, I do not use racial or floating ASIs in my games because I regard them as relatively pointless.
A +2 Str bonus would be less than the difference between real-life male and female humans, let alone the difference between humans and humanoids the size of a six year old child. I'm certainly not going to use a gender-based ability score increase in my magic elf game, so I don't see the need for a racial-based one. And floating ASIs are just an unnecessary complication IMO.
I do get the point about racial ability scores: they're pushing the bell curve of the race compared to other races. But there are still Dex 1 elves and Con 1 dwarves even if the statistical average constitution of the dwarven population is higher than that of the elven population.
I mean, chewie has torn someone's arm off. That's pretty affirmative.It generally behooves the party making the affirmative claim to provide evidence “Wookies are strong enough to tear off a person’s limbs”.
A joking claim (since it seems unlikely that Chewie would actually dismember C3PO) by a known BSer isn’t strong evidence that Wookies can lieterally do that, unless you are also willing to accept that Han’s other ridiculous vlaims are also gospel.
I believe it was after the conversation in episode IV, so you could argue that Han didn't have that proof at the time. Or you could go with the whole "The books aren't canon" argument.