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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorhook" data-source="post: 4908451" data-attributes="member: 58401">Yes, overall my houserule does make many characters (especially Humans) a little bit more powerful. However, the net effect should be that most characters are approximately as powerful as one another, regardless of whether or not the character is an archetypical race/class combination -- Dwarf Fighters become approximately as capable as Dwarf Psions, example. Thus, my houserule balances a whole bunch of "suboptimal" options by making everyone a little bit more powerful.As for the specfic case of the Dwarf Fighter, remember that he's not getting that +2 Strength bonus for free; he trades away a +2 bonus to one of his secondary abilities for it. The trade might not be totally even -- Strength might be more useful than Wisdom, for example -- but I did admit that this houserule does make most characters a little bit stronger. Additionally, remember that even though this houserule makes Dwarves potentially even more attractive as Fighters, it also makes a lot of other races more attractive as Fighters as well. (The intention is that now a player can choose his character's race based upon what kind of character he wants to be and what racial power he wants to have, instead of getting hung up on the ability bonuses.)It seems like it, but no, that's not really what it's about. The actual purpose of this houserule is to make "suboptimal" race-class combinations approximately as viable as the "optimal" ones. In a way, that's sort of like wanting to weaken stereotypes, but strengthening certain stereotypes isn't necessarily contrary to the the goal. For example, Drow Clerics and Kobold Sorcerers are good examples of stereotypical race-class combinations that aren't very "optimal" in 4E RAW, but which probably ought to be moreso. (Although the Kobold Sorcerer has an additional problem: he still sucks at Dragon Sorcery, which would otherwise be the most obvious thematic choice for him. Personally, I recommend some kind of Kobold racial feat to solve this, though I won't worry about it much until Kobolds get a PC race write-up.)Basically, yep, that's the idea; Dwarves still make great Fighters (and now Clerics, Paladins, Warlocks, Druids, Barbarians, Psions, Invokers, Wizards, and probably a bunch of other classes too), but now most other races can also make great Fighters, too. You can pick your favorite racial power and not worry about stats anymore!</blockquote>

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