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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ovarwa" data-source="post: 7173532" data-attributes="member: 75153">Flight in D&D isn't nearly as good as it is in real life.D&D doesn't give you any advantages for ranged attacks from above.  Your targeting has the same rules.  Your range has the same rules.  Your opponents also don't take massive penalties to range, to damage and to targeting for ranged attacks to targets in the sky.Meanwhile, a flying character probably lacks cover.  Everyone can see him, and a human in the air is kind of noticeable.  If hit, he is likely to fall.Any mobile character with room to maneuver and ranged attacks has a vast advantage against slow, short-ranged opponents.Flying remains a great feature, but in D&D it isn't all that.  Most of the time, it is awesome for utility but not so useful in combat.  Tavern brawl?  Useless.  Dungeon crawl combat?  Useless, except in the rare cavern.  Against combatants with great ranged attacks?  Useful, but mostly to retreat.Of course, some of the time, it wins an encounter flat out.  That still seems kind of reasonable:  Every now and then, flight will win the day, and every now and then, you'll find yourself splattered on the ground after being shot out of the sky unexpectedly.  It's your one racial feature.So, now you have an Aarakora with flight, the usual 2 stat bumps and nothing else.  Having nothing else is fair, because flight is excellent.  But if you don't have feather fall, flight is risky, and you are likely to use it carefully.  If you do have feather fall, it is because you have invested significant resources to have it, either your 4th level feat or levels in one of the very few classes that offer it, and none of these are based on Wisdom, so you have either settled for pessimal attribute bumps or are willing to wait for level 3 in a Dex-based archer EK, or something like that.It's still very very good.  But Variant Humans are usually better.  Half-elves, elves, halflings, gnomes and dwarves are all better at many different things.Anyway,Ken</blockquote>

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