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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8116647" data-attributes="member: 6779196"><p>I don’t really want to drag that dead horse into this thread to beat it even more, but my issue with racial ASIs isn’t about producing unbalanced characters - I think the game can tolerate those minor imbalances. My issue is that it makes certain races objectively better suited to certain classes than others. Whether you roll your stats or take an array or use point buy, an orc is always going to be a worse race choice for a wizard than a gnome. I don’t much care about simulating the trend of gnomes being better wizards and orcs being better fighters via player-facing mechanics because I subscribe to the view that PCs are by definition exceptions to such trends. What I do care about is not mechanically discouraging players from playing race/class combinations that interest them.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I don’t disagree. When I roll ability scores I prefer to do them in order, and then to choose race and class based on what I get, rather than choosing race and class first and assigning ability scores based on that. But I know plenty of players who do prefer to do the latter and still want to roll for their ability scores, and I think the system can handle that fine. If there’s going to be an issue, it’ll be players getting jealous of other players’ rolls, and like I said, that’s not really an issue I’ve experienced since high school.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 8116647, member: 6779196"] I don’t really want to drag that dead horse into this thread to beat it even more, but my issue with racial ASIs isn’t about producing unbalanced characters - I think the game can tolerate those minor imbalances. My issue is that it makes certain races objectively better suited to certain classes than others. Whether you roll your stats or take an array or use point buy, an orc is always going to be a worse race choice for a wizard than a gnome. I don’t much care about simulating the trend of gnomes being better wizards and orcs being better fighters via player-facing mechanics because I subscribe to the view that PCs are by definition exceptions to such trends. What I do care about is not mechanically discouraging players from playing race/class combinations that interest them. I don’t disagree. When I roll ability scores I prefer to do them in order, and then to choose race and class based on what I get, rather than choosing race and class first and assigning ability scores based on that. But I know plenty of players who do prefer to do the latter and still want to roll for their ability scores, and I think the system can handle that fine. If there’s going to be an issue, it’ll be players getting jealous of other players’ rolls, and like I said, that’s not really an issue I’ve experienced since high school. [/QUOTE]
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