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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doulos05" data-source="post: 4443118" data-attributes="member: 74145">I have a player who wants to play a Bugbear Ranger. Normally, I am very permissive when it comes to DMing, because I feel it's more fun for everyone involved when the players feel like they have a say in what's going on. But I really think that bugbear is unbalanced as a PC race, especially as dual bastard sword wielding ranger. Reading Alex319's thread on weapon balance has only confirmed this for me. Changing the bastard sword damage to 6.5 (1d12) on his excel spreadsheet makes it's residual 1.17, nearly 3x higher than the Great Axe. My basic understanding is that severe deviation from 0 in that spreadsheet indicated broken. Positive equals broken in PCs favor, negative equals broken against PCs favor. Apologies to Alex319 if that's not how that spreadsheet works. My understanding of statistics stops well short of regression testing.What are your thoughts about Bugbears in particular and MM PC Races in general? Are they balanced enough to run in a party? I'm leaning very heavily towards saying "no" this time, but I want to make sure I'm not over-reacting because I really want to say "yes" if it is indeed a reasonable request. He's even worked up a backstory (A big plus towards getting me to accept it). What do you guys think?</blockquote>