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<blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8518150" data-attributes="member: 6915329">ASIs can be acquired by anyone. Whatever the stat is, multiple races give it as a bonus. There are nine races that give a +2 to Strength. Three of them, plus one sub-race, give +2 Str/+1 Con. ASIs are granted by classes and by some feats. There is nothing unique or race-specific about ASIs.However, the traits, specifically the combination of traits, are unique to each race and sub-race. Sure, there's several ways to get unarmed damage, but getting claws and super-fast zoomies (and darkvision and Perception and Stealth proficiencies)? Only one race has that combination, to the point that you likely were able to immediately identify that race as a tabaxi. And sure, there's several ways to gain flight--but they're all magical and most of them are short-term. Only way to have constant, non-magical flight ability is by playing one of the three flying races.&nbsp; And again, there is an enormous difference between an individual member of a race and the entire race, and an enormous difference between a +2 in a stat that anyone can get in multiple different ways, and a grouping of trait that only members who were born as a particular race can get.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Faolyn, post: 8518150, member: 6915329"] ASIs can be acquired by [I]anyone[/I]. Whatever the stat is, multiple races give it as a bonus. There are [I]nine [/I]races that give a +2 to Strength. Three of them, plus one sub-race, give +2 Str/+1 Con. ASIs are granted by classes and by some feats. There is [I]nothing [/I]unique or race-specific about ASIs. However, the [I]traits[/I], specifically the combination of traits, [I]are [/I]unique to each race and sub-race. Sure, there's several ways to get unarmed damage, but getting claws [I]and [/I]super-fast zoomies (and darkvision and Perception and Stealth proficiencies)? Only one race has that combination, to the point that you likely were able to immediately identify that race as a tabaxi. And sure, there's several ways to gain flight--but they're all magical and most of them are short-term. Only way to have constant, non-magical flight ability is by playing one of the three flying races. And [I]again, [/I]there is an enormous difference between an individual member of a race and the entire race, and an enormous difference between a +2 in a stat that anyone can get in multiple different ways, and a grouping of trait that only members who were born as a particular race can get. [/QUOTE]

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