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It is one thing if a race is marginally better at a class than another class. What you want to avoid is making it so that if you match them with particular classes, you get such overwhelming bonuses that mechanically it would feel kind of dumb to have chosen any other race to match with that...

I don't really see how it would work out at all... unless you were in a group where one person was just being an outright troll. Or at least the person deciding the options being a complete troll and intentionally inserting flat out superior and inferior options (one ability array is all 18s...

I would recommend simplifying this. First, make them Str and Con rather than Str and Dex. There really isn't anything about the big, meaty, hair behemoths that suggests fine motor skills nor skill with bows or finesse weapons nor even being particularly dodgy. However, they most certainly come...

My point is that a character who MUST invest in multiple stats and have them all be high in order to function at the same level is always going to be worse than a character whose abilities are all triggered off of a single attribute that they can invest all of their character build points into...

Well, you can put such restrictions on a character, but I don't know how far they would get. The thing is though, the game absolutely doesn't enable one to successfully elude an aggressor with any sort of reliability short of reducing their hit points to 0. Charm person or sleep could work...

This doesn't work at all. I think you lack the understanding of the basic mechanics of the game that would lead you to making something like this. First-- Dexterity does not contribute solely to damage for the Rogue. It is also key to the class's armor class, improves initiative to allow them...

I think they need the Deception skill. Also, access to the curse line of spells. And, naturally, tool proficiency for computers.

Would there also be the rule that unless you are a saiyajin (or half or quarter saiyajin) then you max out at level 10? And if you are a saiyajin and you are at a quarter HP, your level immediately doubles? I guess it would explain why when a planet is about to blow up in 5 minutes, the hero...

Yeah, here is where you utterly missed the whole point of proper balance and failed. You start with the idea that "hey, at worst, they are going to be 5% worse than everyone else". But you don't actually comprehend what they means. Let us say that person A has a 90% chance to hit and someone...

Try to make a functional Half-Orc oh... let's say Warlock or Sorcerer or Bard or Druid... and then you see how often your racial abilities actually ever come into play as opposed to if you were an Elf or a Dwarf or a Halfling. And it isn't just bad enough that the race offers you NOTHING of any...

Well, I am not sure comparing what Dragonborn have is particularly appropriate. Giving characters with that race every advantage that 8' tall fire-breathing scaley skinned razor clawed winged dragon-people should have over humans would make them a truly over-the-top broken race. It was stupid to...

I don't know that their default form should be humans. Particularly since they seem fundamentally demonic-like entities (or is it some other outsider, I can't really tell), albeit typically non-malevolent ones. I think you could come up with something more creative than that. I would avoid...

I am well on record as making it very clear that whomever wrote the racial entries for Voldo's did a really, really :):):):):):) job and yet... in this particular case?... I don't think the difference here is as great as you are making it out to be. Not unless your GM houseruled that if your...

While I get that there are always going to be fans of settings that existed before this point in time, I always have to be concerned (especially after 4th Edition and the "spell plague") whether revisiting previously crafted settings might inevitably led to the devaluation and destruction of...

Wow, looking back at my post I totally probably even deserved hate for for generalizations and lack of examples to back of my claim. I hardly expected one to agree with me. Yeah, I remember of all the D&D stuff, when I was in elementary school, it got across to me in a way that probably none of...

I already stated with example I think it is fine to do more with the elf. Stating the average member of the people acts loathesometowards typical world denizens already adds aflaw that would make them better.

I am pretty sure I overstated my case to the point that my point got lost in my example. To say that simply because a race idea or the idea of using a certain race came about after Tolkein doesn't meam someone is a wrong or bad player because a certain idea appeals to them. I was simply...

The problem with trying to completely genocide a group is not the issue of beating them in a war. In fact, most attempts to do genocide are done by a very powerful group against one that really has no power to fight back. The problem is trying to track down and kill every last one of them. Orcs...

I get that you hate the Kender, but I think your hatred has made you irrational and blind. Everything in Dragonlance sucks if you put too much thought into it. The truth is, it was basically like the early 80s Saturday Morning cartoon D&D. And we are talking a really bad, pretty brainless and...

Since I first saw Dark Sun, I always felt that it too easily dismissed some of the common "bad guy" humanoids existing in that world. Yeah, they tossed in background pieces about them being exterminated-- but are you really telling me it would be easier to exterminate Orcs than it is to...