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<blockquote data-quote="tuxgeo" data-source="post: 6010060" data-attributes="member: 61026">Giving feedback about this would be a very good idea. The current playtest seems quite one-sided to me: most of the benefit humans get is in really strong ability score bonuses -- but humans don't get much else from their race.Perhaps humans could get a choice of effects. This happened in 4E Essentials with the &quot;Human Power Selection&quot; innovation, where the original PHB's human racial feature of getting one &quot;extra At-Will attack power at Level 1&quot; was supplemented by an option to replace that racial feature with a per-Encounter +4 racial bonus to either an attack or a save. Perhaps humans could give up a smidgen of their current +2 bonus to one ability score and +1 to each of the others, sort of like this: &quot;Two To One And One To Two:&quot; One starting ability increases by +2 and two others increase by +1. By removing those 3 other points of ability score bonuses, WotC could have design space to give human characters different optional benefits such as 4E's extra trained skill at Level 1, or 4E's extra feat at Level 1, or the above per-Encounter +4 racial bonus to an attack or a save. (Of course, Wizards would have to make sure that at least one such option, and ideally more than one, remained available to the Old-Schoolers who don't use skills or feats. . . .)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tuxgeo, post: 6010060, member: 61026"] Giving feedback about this would be a [I]very good idea[/I]. The current playtest seems quite one-sided to me: most of the benefit humans get is in really strong ability score bonuses -- but humans don't get much else from their race. Perhaps humans could get a choice of effects. This happened in 4E Essentials with the "Human Power Selection" innovation, where the original PHB's human racial feature of getting one "extra At-Will attack power at Level 1" was supplemented by an option to replace that racial feature with a per-Encounter +4 racial bonus to either an attack or a save. Perhaps humans could give up a smidgen of their current +2 bonus to one ability score and +1 to each of the others, sort of like this: "[B]Two To One And One To Two[/B]:" One starting ability increases by +2 and two others increase by +1. By removing those 3 [I]other[/I] points of ability score bonuses, WotC could have design space to give human characters different optional benefits such as 4E's extra trained skill at Level 1, or 4E's extra feat at Level 1, or the above per-Encounter +4 racial bonus to an attack or a save. (Of course, Wizards would have to make sure that at least one such option, and ideally more than one, remained available to the Old-Schoolers who don't use skills or feats. . . .) [/QUOTE]

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