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This is fairly blatantly false statement. They do in fact afford that. In all of them you can pick at least two that do make sense thematically, and two is all you need. I'm sorry, but two wrongs don't make a right. That they have included a few stats that are not thematically correct...

Who also use charisma!! :P But seriously. Folks call dex the god stat, but it's not. Charisma is. While you are using your dex to win initiative, hit better, and be harder to hit in that fight, I've talked my fight out of fighting me, had it join my side, and sent it off to fight another one...

Charisma is a much better increase for a fighter. The ability to better persuade kings, merchants, and dragons is better than an extra hit now and then.

You guys are super enamored with the meaningless percentages. If your PC does 1 point of damage and suddenly he does 2 points of damage, that's a 100%!!!!111!!!!1!!! increase! That's such a huge and meaningful contribution to combat now! It blows your paltry 27% increase out of the water. It...

I edited my response. Check the edit. :P

To be fair, if the group is hitting a bunch of monsters who are resistant to non-magical weapons, not having one while the guy over there does have one can make you feel left behind in the dust. It's really campaign dependent and not at all based on the +1 bonus itself.

I misread your response(still groggy from sleep). Edit: The reason for the limitation is that some backgrounds will not fit the setting or DM's particular campaign, so the DM needs veto power.

They've made some questionable decisions. Thank you for proving my point. So even if I take your list as completely against sense, that's still only 10 out of 48 stats that don't make sense, which means that "Most of the stat bonuses make sense." 10 out of 48 isn't most, which is what you are...

This is an incorrect statement. That +1 to strength or dex or whatever, isn't 5% of the pillar's effectiveness. The effectiveness of the PC in a pillar is modified by a lot more than 1 of the PC's stats, plus class and racial abilities, plus player decision making, plus... If that +1 to dex...

To the extent that the bonuses exist at all, they should be tied thematically to the backgrounds. If you want them untied, they should be gotten rid of completely. Better to have no bonuses at all, then to have nonsensical combinations. I've already shown that they do. 10 of the first 12...

Sure, but stat bonuses don't need to be changed to cater to a minority of people. Theme. That's why. The bonuses mostly match the theme of background, where the stats that aren't given bonuses mostly fail to meet the theme of the background. This is a rather blatant Strawman of what I have...

I'm not saying that's not how the mechanics are. I'm saying it just plain should not be that way. Multiclassing should not be a trap for new and casual players. Score minimums aren't a problem, because high stats don't mean a lot in 5e. As long as the PC has the stats required to multiclass...

The same. I'd love to do a dungeon crawl from 1-20.

That shouldn't be the case. I don't care if you want to cheese the system for every extra point of DPR, but someone casual who wants to multiclass for a character concept shouldn't end up with "will often be worse."

It's one extra hit every 20 swings on average. So at 18-30 attacks, that's 0-1.5 extra hits. Against large bags of hit points. That doesn't mean much at all. Again, 26% sounds like a lot until you look at what you are actually doing, which isn't much at all. Not when you realize that 26% is...

I'm defining in play as mechanical play. The reason is that the majority loses their accommodation. There is no reason to allow nonsensical stat/background combinations just so min maxers don't have to ask their DM. You don't design the game around a small minority of players. You design it...

And that's still trivial. It's like when they say your chances of a heart attack go up 50%!!!! It's still .0003 or whatever. That +1 is one extra hit every 6 or 7 combats and +1 damage per hit against bunches of large bags of hit points. It's trivial what it gives you.

No I'm not. If it means something to you, it means something to you. It just means next to nothing in game play. To most people, though, it means something because they've fallen into that habit from prior editions or because they don't understand how meaningless to game play it actually is...

Level Up from this site has improved on the races. They not only have abilities at 1st level, but gain others as they rise in level. It's really neat.

Except the +1 is pretty meaningless. Let's say it's put into strength. You will hit on average 1 extra time every 20 swings. Before you get your extra attack, and the average combat length being 3 rounds, that extra hit will come once every 6-7 fights. And given that many/most fights have...