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I have a radical suggestion for that situation: Speak up! Point out that you messed up royal, you now realise that this encounter...

I see nothing about fudging that has anything to do with "respecting the players".

Also good at making stuff. Another thing I wasn't.

Grit, resilience, loyalty, pragmatic, strong, conservative, stoic. Dwarves are awesome.

Ok? The point was that no one was thinking of dwarf sorcerers when the CHA penalty was introduced. Multiple people said that was...

But that's up to the player. They decide what character they want to play from the available options.

"These ideas" from Micah refers to to the CHA penalty, as I read it. Dwarves had that back in AD&D 1e. At that point the Dwarf Sorcerer...

See my reply to @Ruin Explorer above.

Straight damage per hit isn't the only metric I'm measuring by. The tradeoffs could be the halfling being harder to hit, more mobile, or...

It's because that's not playing against the system. The personal challenge isn't "can I play a suboptimal halfling barbarian", but "how...

When people play themselves with pointy ears, they don't need culture, because they'll do choices informed by their (player's) culture...

I wasn't referring to race limits, but rather to the idea of stat bonuses tied to race (which long pre-dates sorcerers). Maybe stop...

I never used Tasha's. Moved to Level Up right after that book came out. It was for me the line-crpssing moment in terms of official product.

The fact that some differences exist does not imply adding more differences is not an issue.

A PC dwarf is not treated as a different order of being as a dwarf NPC in setting, so neither should IMO have capabilities the other...