D&D 5E Does the Variant Human need a boost now after Tasha's changes

[Gladius Legis]

This just illuminates the fact that if you're going to have floating ability scores for all races, then all races should've been designed with those in mind in the first place. As it stands, Tasha's rules for this are just half-baked and result in the nastiest imbalance 5e has seen, by far.

 

[ScuroNotte]

Which race is next after we bump humans? Where does it end?

Unfortunately, Tasha opened Pandora’s box with the option for races to trade each individual weapon or armor for a skill or tool. So an Elf with proficiency in 4 weapons can exchange that for 4 tools/skills. An Elf fighter would do that as they are already proficient in them. Combine that with placing bonus scores anywhere and we have Pandora’s box. I think WoTC did not think this through at all

 

[DND_Reborn]

This just illuminates the fact that if you're going to have floating ability scores for all races, then all races should've been designed with those in mind in the first place. As it stands, Tasha's rules for this are just half-baked and result in the nastiest imbalance 5e has seen, by far.

Yep, they keep adding crap without understanding the game balance gets thrown out the window.

 

[DND_Reborn]

If you agree, what other feature should be offered?

I would suggest proficiency in a third saving throw. That would be a half-feat (like Resilient, but no ASI bump).

IMO that would be good but not OP. shrug

 

[ScuroNotte]

Use rolled ability scores, race choice won’t matter that much!

Whether array or rolled, the imbalance will
still remain

 

[Warpiglet-7]

This just illuminates the fact that if you're going to have floating ability scores for all races, then all races should've been designed with those in mind in the first place. As it stands, Tasha's rules for this are just half-baked and result in the nastiest imbalance 5e has seen, by far.

I was a skeptic about tashas. A hater. Then I read it.

I like many of the options. My warlock can do cooler things. Some of this stuff is mechanically equivalent but very flavorful.

however, the custom race thing was poorly poorly done.

and though I like a fair amount of the flavor, humans with dark vision seems out of nowhere. This part of the book can just be excluded. It solves nothing but creates more of a problem than it was ever intended to fix.

 

[ScuroNotte]

Yep, they keep adding crap without understanding the game balance gets thrown out the window.

Maybe we can sue them for ruining the game. Everyone else is suing them.

 

[tetrasodium]

No I don't believe that variant human needs a boost. If wotc does something like this to boost all of the loser races up then maybe a small one might be deserved, but even then still probably not because the value of a multifeat concept coming online 4 levels sooner than everyone else should not be ignored fpr thy hypothetical variant human that takes something like actor

 

[Crimson Longinus]

Then play one then, and call it a human.

I'm not seeing a race with 2 x +1's, a feat and a skill is that much different to 1 x +2, a feat and a skill or darkvision (and being Small if thats your thing).

The latter lets you to start with a 18. Considering that the biggest complaint about how the ASIs originally worked was that some races could get one point higher modifier than others, I am a tad perplexed how this is not seen as a bigger deal.

 

[ScuroNotte]

No I don't believe that variant human needs a boost. If wotc does something like this to boost all of the loser races up then maybe a small one might be deserved, but even then still probably not because the value of a multifeat concept coming online 4 levels sooner than everyone else should not be ignored fpr thy hypothetical variant human that takes something like actor

Giving the V human the bonus feat was to compensate for the other races getting bonus weapons, abilities, spells with the restrictions of where points are distributed. With that eliminated and the other benefits of gaining more skills/tools, it’s very apparent the gap has dramatically widened