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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson Longinus" data-source="post: 8367862" data-attributes="member: 7025508">Whilst I get wanting the build flexibility that swapping ASIs bring and I also think that how 5e handles racial ASIs isn't very good to begin with, I still think the essentialism complaint is... well, weird.These are different species. Wood elves are essentially better runners than most other species, aarakockra are essentially better flyers, drow essentially see better in the dark, merfolk are essentially better swimmers, dwarves are essentially better at resisting poisons and countless other similar things. In fact ASIs are far less essentialistic than any of these as they just give you a small bump, but you still get to represent individual variation via point buy or roll. Every wood elf is a faster runner than every dwarf, but even though half-orcs may be on average stronger than elves, some elves can still easily be stronger than some half-orcs.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crimson Longinus, post: 8367862, member: 7025508"] Whilst I get wanting the build flexibility that swapping ASIs bring and I also think that how 5e handles racial ASIs isn't very good to begin with, I still think the essentialism complaint is... well, weird. These are different species. Wood elves are essentially better runners than most other species, aarakockra are essentially better flyers, drow essentially see better in the dark, merfolk are essentially better swimmers, dwarves are essentially better at resisting poisons and countless other similar things. In fact ASIs are far less essentialistic than any of these as they just give you a small bump, but you still get to represent individual variation via point buy or roll. Every wood elf is a faster runner than every dwarf, but even though half-orcs may be on average stronger than elves, some elves can still easily be stronger than some half-orcs. [/QUOTE]

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