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<blockquote data-quote="furysmuse" data-source="post: 6534487" data-attributes="member: 6790043">A conversation recently came up at my table about the imbalance in the races in 5e.&nbsp; My immediate response was, &quot;there has always been imbalance in characters in D&amp;D.&nbsp; Elves are the golden child of the system.&quot;&nbsp; They spoke about the imbalance amongst all the races.&nbsp; Why do half-orcs get so many perks, and dragonborn don't even get darkvision from their ancestors?&nbsp; Tieflings get all these cool spells, and hellish resistance, but gnomes only get gnome cunning.It turned into this counting game as they tried to make direct comparisons between race abilities. Surely there must be more finesse behind these decisions than this character gets three benefits, this character gets two?Do you feel as though the races are balanced?&nbsp; Do you feel that they should be?&nbsp; I don't think that I am playing with a bunch of min-maxers, so we have a good mix of races in the group, and people aren't always the &quot;most compatible&quot; race with their class.&nbsp; But, it's an interesting question.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="furysmuse, post: 6534487, member: 6790043"] A conversation recently came up at my table about the imbalance in the races in 5e. My immediate response was, "there has always been imbalance in characters in D&D. Elves are the golden child of the system." They spoke about the imbalance amongst all the races. Why do half-orcs get so many perks, and dragonborn don't even get darkvision from their ancestors? Tieflings get all these cool spells, and hellish resistance, but gnomes only get gnome cunning. It turned into this counting game as they tried to make direct comparisons between race abilities. Surely there must be more finesse behind these decisions than this character gets three benefits, this character gets two? Do you feel as though the races are balanced? Do you feel that they should be? I don't think that I am playing with a bunch of min-maxers, so we have a good mix of races in the group, and people aren't always the "most compatible" race with their class. But, it's an interesting question. [/QUOTE]

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