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<blockquote data-quote="LadyElect" data-source="post: 8381892" data-attributes="member: 7031965">So, I'm curious about this assertion, but only operating on the link [USER=6901101]@Scott Christian[/USER] provided. And perhaps the below is a misunderstanding of that since it is a lot of text to peruse and I am mostly taking in their color/star coding.However, glancing through a few of the class &quot;handbooks&quot; shows about what I'd expect, which is that the greatest number of entries using Customized Origin moves their assessment of a race/subrace from their &quot;Bad&quot; tier to &quot;OK&quot; or from &quot;OK&quot; to &quot;Good&quot;. That suggests to me that the power gap is being leveled rather than increased. There only seem to be a handful of entries that jump 2 tiers and there are even a surprising number to me that actually move down under the Customized Origin option. The biggest power implications seem to be the relative uselessness of base Human and the expected boost to Yuan-Ti/Satyr or flying speed races under Customized Origin. I've brewed the latter issues out already in my own play, but I think those are fair entries to note given the strength of their traits. Still, nothing seems to suggest that the option creates a larger gap across the board or introduces singular options that exceed existing possible combination with default rules (say, a new tier).Perhaps I am misreading that, though, so please correct me if so. But along those same lines, do you believe that existing racial ASIs are a core component to the existing combinations being balanced? Would eliminating the racial ASIs create the same power imbalance as floating them?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="LadyElect, post: 8381892, member: 7031965"] So, I'm curious about this assertion, but only operating on the link [USER=6901101]@Scott Christian[/USER] provided. And perhaps the below is a misunderstanding of that since it is a lot of text to peruse and I am mostly taking in their color/star coding. However, glancing through a few of the class "handbooks" shows about what I'd expect, which is that the greatest number of entries using Customized Origin moves their assessment of a race/subrace from their "Bad" tier to "OK" or from "OK" to "Good". That suggests to me that the power gap is being leveled rather than increased. There only seem to be a handful of entries that jump 2 tiers and there are even a surprising number to me that actually move down under the Customized Origin option. The biggest power implications seem to be the relative uselessness of base Human and the expected boost to Yuan-Ti/Satyr or flying speed races under Customized Origin. I've brewed the latter issues out already in my own play, but I think those are fair entries to note given the strength of their traits. Still, nothing seems to suggest that the option creates a larger gap across the board or introduces singular options that exceed existing possible combination with default rules (say, a new tier). Perhaps I am misreading that, though, so please correct me if so. But along those same lines, do you believe that existing racial ASIs are a core component to the existing combinations being balanced? Would eliminating the racial ASIs create the same power imbalance as floating them? [/QUOTE]

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