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<blockquote data-quote="Ixal" data-source="post: 8736936" data-attributes="member: 7030132">That would still leave us with races, some vastly different like dragonborn to halflings, which for game purposes are nearly identical, especially when they take the same background.That not only stretches believability, several races have a lot of lore build on their racial ASI. Like elves being exceptional archers. That was backed up with their Dex bonus. Or the dwarven resistance to posion (including beer) with their con bonus.That is all gone now.And for what? So that people can always play a combat optimized character? Should D&amp;D, which draws in a lot of new players into RPGs, really teach them that first and foremost they should optimize their character for combat and the character itself comes second?Sadly I think thats one of the reasons for 5Es success. Do not overwhelm new players with nerdy pretending to be an elf. But making a combat character and killing things? Thats what new players did in video games, so it is a lot less strange to them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ixal, post: 8736936, member: 7030132"] That would still leave us with races, some vastly different like dragonborn to halflings, which for game purposes are nearly identical, especially when they take the same background. That not only stretches believability, several races have a lot of lore build on their racial ASI. Like elves being exceptional archers. That was backed up with their Dex bonus. Or the dwarven resistance to posion (including beer) with their con bonus. That is all gone now. And for what? So that people can always play a combat optimized character? Should D&D, which draws in a lot of new players into RPGs, really teach them that first and foremost they should optimize their character for combat and the character itself comes second? Sadly I think thats one of the reasons for 5Es success. Do not overwhelm new players with nerdy pretending to be an elf. But making a combat character and killing things? Thats what new players did in video games, so it is a lot less strange to them. [/QUOTE]

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