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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreenTengu" data-source="post: 7345196" data-attributes="member: 6777454">You have clearly just designed the race to give you extra abilities and powers for being a wizard. I can't even say this is even a "race" so much as a wishlist pick of abilities that would compliment the Wizard class. There is certainly nothing about this that says "orc" to me.A well-made race ought to be balanced across multiple classes. Which means if the ability scores tend to really boost one particular class, the racial abilities ought to be things that would be far more valuable to classes that would not be boosted by those abilities scores, especially nice are abilities that would make you feel like you have a level 0 in the class the race seems to specialize in if you are any other class....Good examples of this are weapon proficiencies in particular beefy classes (any martial class already get proficiency in its best possible weapons) or a cantrip in a class that would obviously tend towards spell-caster (yes, it gives you 1 more cantrip as a spell-caster, but you get enough cantrips anyway and you can only use one a turn-- so getting a bonus one helps a non-caster class a lot more) or getting something akin to a slightly worse version of Cunning Action on a race that would tend towards Rogue.But when you stack all of the abilities of a "race" toward doing/being only one thing and one thing only like this?Well, the result is that if someone plays as this race, they are going to be a wizard... AND... if someone is going to play a wizard, they will likely choose this race because it is flatly statistically superior. And that is just bad game design since not every member of this race is supposed to be a wizard nor every wizard a member of this race!</blockquote>

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