Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
Racial stat bonuses are there to reinforce what the race in question is. Other races and their bonuses are entirely irrelevant.And why is it a problem to do it this way instead? Letting a hippo man be different from an elf or dwarf... by the fact that he's a hippo man not a dwarf or elf. The ASIs don't lend themselves to that. I mean, imagine for a second they ended up with +2 strength +2 Con, they would still be different than a Mountain Dwarf, wouldn't they?