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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 6365039" data-attributes="member: 58197">I completely disagree. If Cha is not your primary stat, +2 to it is quite a small benefit; +1 on your social skills and saving throws against plane-traveling shenanigans, yay. Languages are tiny. Longer life pretty much never comes into play. Fey ancestry and darkvision are nice perks, but only perks; darkvision is way less useful than you'd think, mostly because there's always going to be that one guy whose character doesn't have it and forces the party to tote around a light source. Skill proficiency is quite respectable, but nowhere near as big as a feat.Basically, you've got a pile of little bonuses versus one giant benefit. However, the little bonuses are all predetermined except skill proficiency, so if your character isn't in a position to make good use of the little bonuses, they don't add up to much.As I see it, if you're playing a character for whom Charisma is a primary stat, half-elf over human is a no-brainer unless there's a feat you absolutely have to have at 1st level. If it's an important secondary stat, it's a tough call. Otherwise, human wins solidly.(The &quot;+1 to all stats&quot; human, however, gets its butt solidly kicked by the half-elf.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 6365039, member: 58197"] I completely disagree. If Cha is not your primary stat, +2 to it is quite a small benefit; +1 on your social skills and saving throws against plane-traveling shenanigans, yay. Languages are tiny. Longer life pretty much never comes into play. Fey ancestry and darkvision are nice perks, but only perks; darkvision is way less useful than you'd think, mostly because there's always going to be that one guy whose character doesn't have it and forces the party to tote around a light source. Skill proficiency is quite respectable, but nowhere near as big as a feat. Basically, you've got a pile of little bonuses versus one giant benefit. However, the little bonuses are all predetermined except skill proficiency, so if your character isn't in a position to make good use of the little bonuses, they don't add up to much. As I see it, if you're playing a character for whom Charisma is a primary stat, half-elf over human is a no-brainer unless there's a feat you absolutely have to have at 1st level. If it's an important secondary stat, it's a tough call. Otherwise, human wins solidly. (The "+1 to all stats" human, however, gets its butt solidly kicked by the half-elf.) [/QUOTE]

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