garyh
First Post
I haven't had time to read the articles in depth (so I won't be voting just yet) but people should at least vote on the article the OP wanted most urgently, and the rest of the non-minotaur stuff.
Good point. I didn't have any problems with the warlord article, so YES on that.
Not to sound argumentative, but yes we do and that's precisley why you are wary about the number of people who will be unhappy.
Last I checked we had something like 4 minotaurs and 3 bugbears out of 90 approved character....
If we had some way to tell, I'd bet ten to one we'd have half less minotaurs and bugbears without the oversized stuff. It's a nigh certainty.
I think it probably also had a lot to do with being the only +2 STR/+2 CON and +2 STR/+2 DEX races available at the time, too.
Yes, I'm sure oversized played a significant part in their choice of race, but Str/Con and Str/Dex are pretty attractive for melee fighters too. When Hrav was created, Bugbears were the only Str/Dex race available. All of the minotaurs were created before PHB2, so it was either minotaur or warforged for Str/Con, and I get the feeling that warforged are an acquired taste.
People have already made my argument for me. When I created Hrav, I chose bugbear for two reasons:
1) Only available Str/Dex race, and I wanted a brutal rogue.
2) I really liked the monster pirate story we gave them in L4W.
In my view, Oversized was just what they got because they have no other racial abilitiess worth a darn (compare the MUCH inferior Predatory Eye to the half-orcs' Furious Assault, for an example just between Str/Dex races, plus all the other stuff half-orcs get).
As I've said, if bugbears end up as strong as half-orcs when they get the full treatment, I'll gladly turn in my large rapier. But if they get nerfed as bad as minotaurs, you'll have to pry my large rapier from my cold, dead, furry hands.