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I may have used a poor choice of words. I‘ve just run a year long Pathfinder adventure path, followed by almost a year (to date) D&D campaign. In both, one common desire of character design was a level of optimisation, and I felt it had more negative than positive impact on the fun overall, but...

I agree that ASIs aren’t the necessarily the best way to differentiate races, but Ability Scores are central to character design. If the default rule is just get +2 and +1 to place anywhere, then I can see that may actually limit creativity because this is a game and has certain ‘success‘...

Just to clarify, my ’D&D‘ of choice is Pathfinder. It was only the fact that a published campaign that really appealed to me was 5e that I decided to play 5e. My contribution to this discussion is more because I‘m intrigued by this topic rather than because I actually play 5e. Further, I am now...

Again, I agree. For me this change is not about racial sensitivity or necessarily making the game better. In this case, ‘better‘ would be more about whether a particular player feels that this change means they have more authority to create a character that is no longer restricted by fixed ASIs...

Definitely agree that the racial sensitivity issue is a separate issue - why I said that I like to keep real world and imaginary world as separate as possible. My issue is with making mechanical changes that I feel change what I see as part of the identity of D&D. There are plenty of fantasy...

But I believe that the race/class combinations, and the related mechanical elements, are part of what makes up D&D’s identity. If I want to play a game where I can create anything, then I would look at GURPS or Cypher System or Genesys. But I guess WotC are free to take D&D in whatever...

I will admit up front that I am not 5e fan. The rules simplification went too far for me. But I can’t deny that game generally works well and is easy to get into. Added to the popular brand name makes 5e a great gateway into TTRPG. (I am currently 40 weeks into a 5e campaign that I‘m DMing, but...

PEG set the goal and they explain that this project is already funded (and nearly finished). The KS is just a way to raise awareness and get some pre-orders in. I have to admit that I was interested, but $300 + VAT + (at least) $87 shipping was just too much.