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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deset Gled" data-source="post: 1479874" data-attributes="member: 7808">Hmm, perhaps I should have prefaced my oppinions by stating that I think the dwarf is probably the worst balanced of all the core races to begin with.  IMC, dwarves do not get the free weapon proficiencies, as I view that change as just adding insult to injury.  Also, I am comparing the balance of this race to othe core races; as I said before, there are a lot of races in KoK that are just plain more powerful than normal races.  So, depending on your game, you might want to take everything I say with a grain of salt.Getting back to the topic of these specific dwarves, I think that giving +1 to hit with a specific type of weapon is a poor way to make up for giving away a  +1 to hit against a specific type of energy.  The one is something that a character will have all the time (especially considering all the synergies this class has with that fighting style), at the other is completely situational and DM dependent.  The +1 to hit with light weapons is definetally the better of the two.Also, I see the TWF freebie to be more powerful in nature that the EWP.  The EWP gives, in general, an extra point of damage or so to every attack, and it can be argued that it is done as much for flavor as for power.  TWF gives bonus attacks, and is a clearly tactical feat.  The TWF feat is also a great synergy with the afformentioned bonus to hit with light weapons.  Also to consider is the new bonuses to skills (search, hide, move silently) are quite useful (again with great synergy with the rogue class, and help to cancel out the effect of the -2 to intelligence), as is the significant increase in darkvision range.It's really not that there's any one bonus of this race that's obviously overpowering, it's the combination of a lot of things that are slightly more powerful being added on top of the race that is already slightly more powerful.  There were a lot of small things taken out that weren't overly synergetic, and they were replaced with things that were all slightly more powerful and much more synergetic.  The net result: a race that is overpowered.As for balancing, I stand by my original point of giving up the free feats.  If you think that doing so is taking away the entire purpose of the race, then that's probably a good indication of why this race needs altering.  Furthermore, I wouldn't  put too much faith in using brightness as a counterbalance.  IMHO, you just can't balance something racial with something situational.  It's akin to trying to balance with RP restrictions; it just doesn't seem to work.  As for making the +1 to light weapons not stack with Weapon Focus, why not make everything simpler and just get rid of it entirely?  Also, I think that a -2 to dexterity would make sense from an RP standpoint (these dwarves are rough and tough, not overly nimble, correct?), and would mean a lot more to the characters than a -2 to charisma (which would probably only make a difference if they took ranks in UMD).</blockquote>

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