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Yeah agree 100%. If CHA is "force of will" as is implied, dwarves surely do not lack that! Honestly I feel like in 6th or 7th edition...

It’s not only that, it’s also that some class choices are extremely disconnected from their main attributes. Dwarves are supposed to be...

Because no one ever argues that bonuses and penalties should be limited to physical traits, and when you bring in mental traits, it...

That's an excellent question. I think the answer is that we don't actually need them most of the time. It is perhaps key to remember...

One of the problems with bioessentialism in the game is that it draws attention to how poorly defined the attributes are. Your species...

What's always been really funny to me about people getting SO MAD about strong, brutish halflings being possible is that they...

The problem of stats and especially stat penalties is a game design one. Saying that Halflings get +2 Dex means you are encouraging...

The goal I was describing wasn't to get people to try something different from their own, but simply to feel like they can try...

I'll add that in a hobby that prides itself on modifying rules to suit particular tables, complaints about things like orcs not being...

Exactly this. Bioessentialism is also what gets us things like stat bonuses or penalties for gender.

Yeah there won't be any red text anytime soon in this thread....

The examples the OP gives are not a problem. Bioessentialism becomes problematic when two things happen: 1. The essentialism is about...

I saw an interview with Ed Greenwood where he talked about how both TSR and WotC don’t understand how polytheism works and that the...

And by extension, making Superman a terrible person...making Superman not a hero...etc.

That's a cool thing to do for your player. That's my experience, too.