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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Minigiant" data-source="post: 9875156" data-attributes="member: 63508">Many people design with human as the baseline and build on top instead of building an elf or human off the same slate. Basing species off blank slate human just keeps you from making an elf elf. Thats they 1e had level limits. Its bad design if you plan on PCs leveling up.Then you get to the issue that a -2 doesnt compensate for a breath weapon or teleport unless off the same score as the breath weapon or teleport. -2 Int for a Con based breath weapon is imbalance.I find this ironic about Fantasy vs Sci fi.Scifi games design little green aliens who are super smart and cannot process certain compounds like, I don't know, peanut butter or a species of intelligent talking dogs, most professional designers and writers dont design them from humanity. They work off a similar building block and make the species they want to the racial budget.But when It's fantasy, they are humans but +4 INT and -4 STR and green or blue. Humans are nothing special and elf are pointy eared humans.</blockquote>