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<blockquote data-quote="Helldritch" data-source="post: 8389867" data-attributes="member: 6855114">1) Are trolling me or what? No one would asked a&nbsp; DM to not give them magic items. And the forcing would come from a DM telling a player where to put floating ASI so as to create a gimped character and not an underdog. 2) Being forced to work with rules is not the same thing as forcing someone to put stats where he/she does not want to. I want to be warlock but I want to be a half orc is a perfectly valid choice. With fixed ASI, you know that in relation to other warlock you will be a bit behind in the power curve for a while but you will eventually catch up and your half orc heritage will help you out in situations where an other race of warlock would be in trouble. With floating ASI, there is no trade off. You just optimize and there you go. This is no longer a meaningful choice as sooner or later, players will take the races that will offer the best racial powers and the other races will slowly fade out of usage. At this point, remove all races and make them all the same. We know that RPG that went this way ate not the most popular ones. I played some of them and did not like it. There is a reason that D&amp;D has endured the test of time. It is the combination of a few rules and ways of doing things that helped it last this long.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Helldritch, post: 8389867, member: 6855114"] 1) Are trolling me or what? No one would asked a DM to not give them magic items. And the forcing would come from a DM telling a player where to put floating ASI so as to create a gimped character and not an underdog. 2) Being forced to work with rules is not the same thing as forcing someone to put stats where he/she does not want to. I want to be warlock but I want to be a half orc is a perfectly valid choice. With fixed ASI, you know that in relation to other warlock you will be a bit behind in the power curve for a while but you will eventually catch up and your half orc heritage will help you out in situations where an other race of warlock would be in trouble. With floating ASI, there is no trade off. You just optimize and there you go. This is no longer a meaningful choice as sooner or later, players will take the races that will offer the best racial powers and the other races will slowly fade out of usage. At this point, remove all races and make them all the same. We know that RPG that went this way ate not the most popular ones. I played some of them and did not like it. There is a reason that D&D has endured the test of time. It is the combination of a few rules and ways of doing things that helped it last this long. [/QUOTE]

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