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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7274226" data-attributes="member: 20564">That's valid, and that's why there are plenty of different games out there.  I find I have more fun with the exact opposite - my wishes dictate my character as opposed to my knowledge of the mechanics.  This was really driven home a few years back when helping my kids make characters and they had concepts they just did not work at all mechanically - but were great concepts you could easily read in a story.You still had racial influence because that was one of your two ability boosts.  So if you're making a wood elf fighter, you're much more likely to go a DEX route because you can pick that from Wood Elf and CON from Fighter.  You could take +2 STR from Fighter and then you are +2 DEX or WIS from Wood Elf.</blockquote>