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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6630651" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Of course it's a variant human and I didn't bother to make that explicit because it's obvious. Three seconds of thinking showed you that--why didn't you just erase your &quot;Sorry, no feat for you&quot; statement after you realized your mistake? I even mentioned variant humans in the paragraph you quoted! Your alternative is to assume that I'm an idiot who can't divide 12 by 4. Bad assumption.And no, I'm not stuck failing every skill check. Druids can cast Enhance Ability, which makes me rather good at skill checks if I know they're coming. I'm not fantastic at Con saves or Dex saves, but the variance on a d20 is high enough that I'm not hopeless at them either. I'll pass them some of the time and fail them a lot of the time, whereas a good Con score would let me pass them maybe half the time and fail them half the time. Not that much of a difference IMO--the best defense is to avoid making those Con saves in the first place.In short, unlike you, I don't think that missing out on +2 from &quot;standard array +1 normal human&quot; is all that crippling. It's probably a 15-20% difference in efficiency but far from unplayable. You're paying too much attention to peak performance instead of operational efficiency.Edit: wait a second, when you say, &quot;That same Moon Druid now has three additional feats,&quot; what do you mean? Why would standard point buy have THREE additional feats? Are you giving up on 20 Wis or what? By my math you'd have one additional feat. If you rolled well you'd have two additional feats. How do you get to three?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 6630651, member: 6787650"] Of course it's a variant human and I didn't bother to make that explicit because it's obvious. Three seconds of thinking showed you that--why didn't you just erase your "Sorry, no feat for you" statement after you realized your mistake? I even mentioned variant humans in the paragraph you quoted! Your alternative is to assume that I'm an idiot who can't divide 12 by 4. Bad assumption. And no, I'm not stuck failing every skill check. Druids can cast Enhance Ability, which makes me rather good at skill checks if I know they're coming. I'm not fantastic at Con saves or Dex saves, but the variance on a d20 is high enough that I'm not hopeless at them either. I'll pass them some of the time and fail them a lot of the time, whereas a good Con score would let me pass them maybe half the time and fail them half the time. Not that much of a difference IMO--the best defense is to avoid making those Con saves in the first place. In short, unlike you, I don't think that missing out on +2 from "standard array +1 normal human" is all that crippling. It's probably a 15-20% difference in efficiency but far from unplayable. You're paying too much attention to peak performance instead of operational efficiency. [B]Edit:[/B] wait a second, when you say, "That same Moon Druid now has three additional feats," what do you mean? Why would standard point buy have THREE additional feats? Are you giving up on 20 Wis or what? By my math you'd have one additional feat. If you rolled well you'd have two additional feats. How do you get to three? [/QUOTE]

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