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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cyber-Dave" data-source="post: 7474857" data-attributes="member: 82132">...no offence WaterRabbit, but that comment tells me that you don't understand the game's inner workings or balance. A lot of the comments in this thread (and I am speaking to criticism) have been helpful. It was too much like a Goliath. It is more powerful than a normal PC race (and I had to find a way to balance that without taking away features from this race). So on and so forth. You just claimed, however, that it has all the advantages with none of the disadvantages or a large creature, and you seem to believe that reach is the element of a large sized race that makes it impossible to balance. Neither claim is true (and they are not the reasons that the devs have given us for never creating a creature that is permanently large in size). There are two features of large-sized creatures that have created a "design infraction" around creatures that are permanently large in size. 1) Larger weapon damage dice. There is no real way to balance double melee weapon damage dice on a race. 2) The effect of large size on AoE effects centered on a caster. The devs also don't like what large size does in terms of a creature's ability to single single-handedly block wide hallways in dungeons or the difficulty that large PCs have when interacting with smaller-scale buildings. Those are the elements of large size I am trying to avoid. As for reach, it has already been given to a medium PC race. So has powerful build. Likewise, "Large Grappler" is inline with features currently granted by existing feats. I appreciate the time you took to give me feedback, but in this case, I strongly disagree with it.</blockquote>

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