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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8389972" data-attributes="member: 58172">Keep in mind, the same reason that floating ability score improvements were added to Tashas, is the same reason that racist fixed ability scores cannot be the default rule.The whole point is to eliminate reallife racist tropes from the D&amp;D tradition. Whose Intelligence is assumed to be higher or lower is part of the undesirable racist tropes.The closest one can suggest is that certain CULTURES award &quot;prestige&quot; to certian subclasses, which indirectly implies certain abilities be higher. But there are still many in the culture who belong to other classes with different high abilities. Also, there is dissonance between abilities and prestigious classes. For example, I view elves as mainly Bard, Wizard, and Druid, and none of these has anything to do with Dexterity, per se. Moreover, a hobgoblin culture might reward Wizard, an orc culture might reward Cleric, and so on. The abilities are remarkably useless to quantify a race flavor as a group. It generalizes too much to predict specific individuals.In any group, every ability can have statistical outliers. There will likely be at least some orcs who start young with an Intelligence of 20. An individual who is one of these outliers will be exceptional at whichever subclass finds the ability advantageous.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 8389972, member: 58172"] Keep in mind, the same reason that floating ability score improvements were added to Tashas, is the same reason that racist fixed ability scores cannot be the default rule. The whole point is to eliminate reallife racist tropes from the D&D tradition. Whose Intelligence is assumed to be higher or lower is part of the undesirable racist tropes. The closest one can suggest is that certain CULTURES award "prestige" to certian subclasses, which indirectly implies certain abilities be higher. But there are still many in the culture who belong to other classes with different high abilities. Also, there is dissonance between abilities and prestigious classes. For example, I view elves as mainly Bard, Wizard, and Druid, and none of these has anything to do with Dexterity, per se. Moreover, a hobgoblin culture might reward Wizard, an orc culture might reward Cleric, and so on. The abilities are remarkably useless to quantify a race flavor as a group. It generalizes too much to predict specific individuals. In any group, every ability can have statistical outliers. There will likely be at least some orcs who start young with an Intelligence of 20. An individual who is one of these outliers will be exceptional at whichever subclass finds the ability advantageous. [/QUOTE]

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