D&D 5E Is Tasha's Broken?

[Minigiant]

Or all halflings being lucky or brave due their species. That's far more essentialistic, than a small bump in ability score that you can mostly offset via the point buy.

I miss traits like Elven Accuracy and Second Chance being baked into the race so that you feel you have an active way to leverage your race's traits with any class and can visualize the advantages and disadvantages you get for taking a race with class's secondary and tertiary ability scores.

The race feats is one of the many reasoning I put Xanatar' over Tasha's.

Replacing an Elf's +2 Dex with the Elven Accuracy feat makes a elf feel more like an elf. Hopefully the simplicity base of 6e will be slightly higher so that cool racial traits can reenter the base race.

Or maybe the next option book would suggest things we can trade away our +2s and +1s for.

 

[Bill Zebub]

Yes.

Bummer.

 

[Weiley31]

Wow. 17 pages is a lot. Anyone feel like summing up the key issues? Other than the stats argument above?

About the issue above specifically, I really don't get how one extra hit over multiple fights equates to 20% more damage (or anything close). So, um, what?!

Tasha bad, Twilight/Peace Cleric stole their wife, cat got ran over by the Wizard in the minivan, Trailer for Love and Thunder came out recently.

 

[ECMO3]

in 3.5 (dwarves had a charisma penalty back then)

So did Tieflings .... but before Tasha's they had a bonus in 5E.

 

[Oofta]

Bummer.

It's a "bummer" that I enjoyed trying to see if a mountain dwarf wizard would be an effective PC? Acknowledging that I enjoy playing someone that's successful at their role despite other people thinking I'm making a poor choice? That it can be fun to play a PC only to have people say "You're playing a [insert race here] as a [insert non-optimal class here]" then contributing just as much or more to the success of the group as any other PC?

It's not like I haven't explained this before.

 

[Irlo]

It's a "bummer" that I enjoyed trying to see if a mountain dwarf wizard would be an effective PC? Acknowledging that I enjoy playing someone that's successful at their role despite other people thinking I'm making a poor choice? That it can be fun to play a PC only to have people say "You're playing a [insert race here] as a [insert non-optimal class here]" then contributing just as much or more to the success of the group as any other PC?

It's not like I haven't explained this before.

Speaking for myself, not for Bill, it’s a bummer that your enjoyment is diminished by the existence of the option of floating ASIs, even if you chose not to use it.

 

[Bill Zebub]

It's a "bummer" that I enjoyed trying to see if a mountain dwarf wizard would be an effective PC? Acknowledging that I enjoy playing someone that's successful at their role despite other people thinking I'm making a poor choice? That it can be fun to play a PC only to have people say "You're playing a [insert race here] as a [insert non-optimal class here]" then contributing just as much or more to the success of the group as any other PC?

It's not like I haven't explained this before.

No, bummer that you care so much about what other people think that it spoils your fun.

 

[d24454_modern]

Speaking for myself, not for Bill, it’s a bummer that your enjoyment is diminished by the existence of the option of floating ASIs, even if you chose not to use it.

Floating ASIs feel really cowardly. Like the player is terrified of losing in a game without game overs.

 

[Irlo]

Floating ASIs feel really cowardly. Like the player is terrified of losing in a game without game overs.

That’s ridiculous.

 

[Bill Zebub]

Floating ASIs feel really cowardly. Like the player is terrified of losing in a game without game overs.

Worst. Post. Ever.

The other day I posted that sometimes when people are upset about the changes, their tears are part of the enjoyment. I was being facetious, but…uh…yeah. Maybe not completely.