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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8385568" data-attributes="member: 6801228">A very long post to say a whole lot of not much. Every Mountain Dwarf can wear armor and use a hammer. As a commoner, that would mean they are swinging a normal blow that has a +1 to hit and deals 1d8+1 damage.So your monster sees a dwarf in armor and with a hammer, then they run forward, and swing that hammer so it crashes in to the monsters friend with a boom of thunder that cracks their spine and sends them lifeless into the dirt. They made that attack with a +7 and dealt 2d8+4 damage. That is massively better than any dwarf they have ever seen before. Why don't they react with shock and surprise? Dwarves can't do this, dwarves attack at +1 and a deal 1d8+1 damage. Or maybe they've seen an adventuring dwarf before, so they could tell me exactly what class that dwarf is and what abilities they were using and how they got them? Halflings are poor fighters? No. They are poor strength fighters, they make for excellent dex fighters. Even in the realms of optimization. Dwarves are bad wizards? Maybe in the realms of optimization, but in a world where the commoner wizard would have a 12 INT, any PC wizard is far superior. Again, what you are describing is basically that the monsters are metagaming, because they know if you picked an atypical build and react with shock that you are capable of something most of your race isn't... and since most of your race isn't a PC class, that's just about everything you do.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 8385568, member: 6801228"] A very long post to say a whole lot of not much. Every Mountain Dwarf can wear armor and use a hammer. As a commoner, that would mean they are swinging a normal blow that has a +1 to hit and deals 1d8+1 damage. So your monster sees a dwarf in armor and with a hammer, then they run forward, and swing that hammer so it crashes in to the monsters friend with a boom of thunder that cracks their spine and sends them lifeless into the dirt. They made that attack with a +7 and dealt 2d8+4 damage. That is massively better than any dwarf they have ever seen before. Why don't they react with shock and surprise? Dwarves can't do this, dwarves attack at +1 and a deal 1d8+1 damage. Or maybe they've seen an adventuring dwarf before, so they could tell me exactly what class that dwarf is and what abilities they were using and how they got them? Halflings are poor fighters? No. They are poor strength fighters, they make for excellent dex fighters. Even in the realms of optimization. Dwarves are bad wizards? Maybe in the realms of optimization, but in a world where the commoner wizard would have a 12 INT, any PC wizard is far superior. Again, what you are describing is basically that the monsters are metagaming, because they know if you picked an atypical build and react with shock that you are capable of something most of your race isn't... and since most of your race isn't a PC class, that's just about everything you do. [/QUOTE]

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