Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="thealmightyn" data-source="post: 8088661" data-attributes="member: 7015815">I'm not trying to take sides in the overall back 'n' forth you two are having, but come on, dude. When you accuse someone of pandering to someone else, there's an implicit understanding there that you do not approve of the effect of the pandering. Nobody complains when someone panders to them. LOLAnd that's not even accounting for the rest of your comments that explicitly bash the decisions and the company trying to give options to people who don't want to be penalized for playing a character they want to play.To be clear, I agree with some of the general ideas you're putting forth. I'm also not a huge fan of the specific approach that Wizards has taken with this. I honestly think that the changes essentially make race a non-choice, kind of like how background is right now.I personally think that if they're going down this route, they should just nix a mechanical race choice altogether. Give everyone a +2 to one ability score, a +1 to another ability score, and then some form of &quot;budget&quot; with which to choose from a selection of popular racial features. If the goal is for people to not feel penalized for playing a certain race/class combo, then just make class the meaningful mechanical choice and relegate race to fluff just like background is when you take the custom background approach (since once every character can just have whatever ASIs they want without having to make choices, like you said, it more or less does become fluff).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="thealmightyn, post: 8088661, member: 7015815"] I'm not trying to take sides in the overall back 'n' forth you two are having, but [I]come on[/I], dude. When you accuse someone of pandering to someone else, there's an implicit understanding there that you do not approve of the effect of the pandering. [I]Nobody[/I] complains when someone panders to [I]them[/I]. LOL And that's not even accounting for the rest of your comments that explicitly bash the decisions and the company trying to give options to people who don't want to be penalized for playing a character they want to play. To be clear, I agree with some of the general ideas you're putting forth. I'm also not a huge fan of the specific approach that Wizards has taken with this. I honestly think that the changes essentially make race a non-choice, kind of like how background is right now. I personally think that if they're going down this route, they should just nix a mechanical race choice altogether. Give everyone a +2 to one ability score, a +1 to another ability score, and then some form of "budget" with which to choose from a selection of popular racial features. If the goal is for people to not feel penalized for playing a certain race/class combo, then just make class the meaningful mechanical choice and relegate race to fluff just like background is when you take the custom background approach (since once every character can just have whatever ASIs they want without having to make choices, like you said, it more or less does become fluff). [/QUOTE]

Verification