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<blockquote data-quote="DND_Reborn" data-source="post: 8152700" data-attributes="member: 6987520">Not at all. The same thing that always has: a list of set traits that creatures have in common, along with a biological make-up that defines you as that creature apart from others that might have similar traits.In short, you do not have elven traits if you do not have:You are not an elf. You are something else, a unique being. Are there others like you, which share your biological make-up and have the same traits you do? Then pick a new name for yourselves and voila a new race!So, Tasha's says float this, customize that, blah blah blah. When you are done, guess what... you have something called HOMEBREW which is what people have been doing for decades. A lot of tables have house-ruled floating ASIs for so long it is ridiculous. So, ALL WotC has done is basically tell everyone, &quot;Go ahead, check with your DM, and homebrew the crap out of your game.&quot;&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes&nbsp; &nbsp; :rolleyes:"&nbsp; data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> FWIW, as far as ASIs are concerned, I've been saying for a long time just get rid of them entirely. Don't float them, we don't need them, get rid of them. Represent racial traits through more meaningful concepts like instead of STR +2 give a race Powerful Build, etc.Tasha's basically said, &quot;Ok, let's give power gamers and option so they can play something other than variant human to get a feat at level 1 and throw in darkvision, after all, over half the races still don't have it.&quot;[SPOILER=&quot;Rant&quot;]Finally, yeah, I know it is all &quot;optional&quot;, well good because 90% of it is all crap IMO. 300-ft darkvision??? Are you f'ing kidding me? On top of that, let's make it so you can give to all willing creatures within 10 feet of you for an hour! The more I read the book the more I am SO glad I didn't buy it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> [/SPOILER]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DND_Reborn, post: 8152700, member: 6987520"] Not at all. The same thing that always has: a list of set traits that creatures have in common, along with a biological make-up that defines you as that creature apart from others that might have similar traits. In short, you do not have elven traits if you do not have: You are not an elf. You are something else, a unique being. Are there others like you, which share your biological make-up and have the same traits you do? Then pick a new name for yourselves and voila a new race! So, Tasha's says float this, customize that, blah blah blah. When you are done, guess what... you have something called [I]HOMEBREW[/I] which is what people have been doing for decades. A lot of tables have house-ruled floating ASIs for so long it is ridiculous. So, [I]ALL[/I] WotC has done is basically tell everyone, "Go ahead, check with your DM, and homebrew the crap out of your game." :rolleyes: FWIW, as far as ASIs are concerned, I've been saying for a long time just get rid of them entirely. Don't float them, we don't need them, get rid of them. Represent racial traits through more meaningful concepts like instead of STR +2 give a race Powerful Build, etc. Tasha's basically said, "Ok, let's give power gamers and option so they can play something [I]other[/I] than variant human to get a feat at level 1 [I]and[/I] throw in darkvision, after all, over half the races still don't have it." [SPOILER="Rant"] Finally, yeah, I know it is all "optional", well good because 90% of it is all crap IMO. 300-ft darkvision??? Are you f'ing kidding me? On top of that, let's make it so you can give to [I]all willing creatures within 10 feet of you[/I] for an hour! The more I read the book the more I am [I]SO[/I] glad I didn't buy it. :) [/SPOILER] [/QUOTE]

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