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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson Longinus" data-source="post: 8517068" data-attributes="member: 7025508">If it is a thing everyone can do, then it is not a way of doing associated with particular species. Like if everyone could get a breath weapon, then that really wouldn't be a dragonborn thing, even if they could take it too, would it?This to me is really unconvincing. And If you feel that the rules for PCs don't need to reflect the reality of their species in the setting, why on earth would this logic only apply to ability scores? Why can't my halfling have breath weapon and my orc brave trait? You still could have all the NPC halflings not have breath weapon and all NPC orcs not have brave. So if PCs are not bound by their species why we have dedicated race splats at all ? I don't get it.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f635.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt="o_O" title="Er... what?&nbsp; &nbsp; o_O"&nbsp; data-smilie="12"data-shortname="o_O" /> Sure. You chose the one situation where the dex and strength builds are closest to each other, but different weapons still result different imagery and their different ability scores affect different things in other areas. The goliath will be better grappler, the halfling way stealthier. The halfling will use shortbow as their ranged weapon, the goliath a handaxe. These characters will play differently overall, even in combat. Sure, you certainly could add rules to differentiate things further. And that would probably be a good thing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crimson Longinus, post: 8517068, member: 7025508"] If it is a thing everyone can do, then it is not a way of doing associated with particular species. Like if everyone could get a breath weapon, then that really wouldn't be a dragonborn thing, even if they could take it too, would it? This to me is really unconvincing. And If you feel that the rules for PCs don't need to reflect the reality of their species in the setting, why on earth would this logic only apply to ability scores? Why can't my halfling have breath weapon and my orc brave trait? You still could have all the NPC halflings not have breath weapon and all NPC orcs not have brave. So if PCs are not bound by their species why we have dedicated race splats at all ? I don't get it. o_O Sure. You chose the one situation where the dex and strength builds are closest to each other, but different weapons still result different imagery and their different ability scores affect different things in other areas. The goliath will be better grappler, the halfling way stealthier. The halfling will use shortbow as their ranged weapon, the goliath a handaxe. These characters will play differently overall, even in combat. Sure, you certainly could add rules to differentiate things further. And that would probably be a good thing. [/QUOTE]

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