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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8131212" data-attributes="member: 6790260">The former. People flip out if you take away their anything. See: the last 20 years of game design.A kludgy fix to this kludgy problem could be to make some over-the-top feats that can only be taken by specific races. With, say, half a dozen "feat-and-a-half" feats, it'd be hard to argue that a Dragonborn is bad, they just have to grow into their power.Actually, that'd be pretty cool: make six feats, one for each ability score. You get +1 to that score, and a strong and thematically appropriate benefit associated with that ability score. Spitballing concepts rather than hard rules, using Dragonborn as an example:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dragonborn Fury: +1 Str, attack bonus when below half health, use breath weapon on a melee weapon for temp. [element] damage bonus.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dragonborn Toughness: +1 Con, reroll 1s on Hit Die rolls to regain HP, choose a second breath element, expend breath weapon to turn one of your resistances into immunity for a while.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dragonborn Guile: +1 Dex, proficiency in one of [dex skill list] (Expertise if you already have prof), expend breath weapon to create a concealing cloud for PB rounds,</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dragonborn Memory: +1 Int, proficiency in one of [int skill list], reroll knowledge checks [PB] times per long rest (only one reroll per check),</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dragonborn Senses: +1 Wisdom, prof in Perception (Expertise if you already have prof), Darkvision, advantage on checks to detect hidden treasure.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dragonborn Presence: +1 Cha, prof in one of [cha skill list]; expend breath to gain a supernatural aura of fear/awe (your choice) against all non-dragonborn humanoids, giving you advantage on all Charisma ability checks against them and imposing disadvantage on anyone trying to discern your true motives, alignment, etc. or oppose your threats/persuasion.</li> </ul>All "expend breath to X" benefits would last for something like Proficiency Bonus rounds or something like that. A small but meaningful amount of time--growing to be about a whole combat by mid levels.</blockquote>

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