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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8091305" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Sure, that would be an interesting take, but that would be a heavy re-write to the game. Far more than a single optional rule. Yes, it is a matter of perspective. That is my point. From where I am standing, this is a great rule, because it fixes a problem I have personally had. So, when I see people trying to tell me that I am wrong, because I really just want to powergame a min-max character that has no regard to the story, I'm flabberghasted. In that case, why did I care about the race/class combo, instead of picking the well-trod cliched builds. You realize none of this matters for what I was saying right? When this game took place, we only had the PHB. So there were no races with +2 wisdom. Most of them had +1 as a secondary. Yet, my expeirence is still valid, is it not? Just because you can point to all these numbers and tell me how little I was sacrificing, that doesn't mean I suddenly will feel good about that character and how they played.And this comes across as judgemental. How did I get those numbers, didn't this aspect help? Didn't I notice this boon? How did I possibly think that decision was a good one? Honestly, I dumped Dex because it was a god-stat. I had never dumped dex on a single character in my entire DnD career. I always dumped strength. But, I had access to heavy armor, and I was a wisdom caster, so I figured I'd reverse it. I didn't mind always going last. Spells were never an issue in that game. We never stealthed. So, mostly, it was a non-issue. Except for that crossbow, which still reeks, since it was a uniquely created item for my character, but was something they had no capability of using. Is that reason good enough to meet your approval?Again, that could work. But, it would take a much more intensive re-write than seems to be intended by WoTC at this time.It seems to me that it accomplishes the goal fine if there are now new class/race combos with the rule. Before this combos A,B,C were optimal. Now you have combos A, B, C, X, Y, Z. That is a wider diversity of options. Creating new options is still an expansion on what was possible before.Man, I wish I knew before that armor was the most absolutely powerful thing a wizard could ever get. I'd have played Hobgoblins and Gith far more in that case. I mean... I never heard people saying that Githyanki were the best choice for Wizard in the entire game, even though they had a bonus to int, bonus spells, and medium armor and martial weapons. But clearly now Mountain Dwarves are... because they get medium armor... hmmmmmThat seems to not add up. That seems to suggest if it was really that powerful, that it would have been a big deal before right now.</blockquote>

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