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<blockquote data-quote="Aservan" data-source="post: 4345941" data-attributes="member: 63340">Umm.&nbsp; Teiflings don't get a bonus to Dex.&nbsp; They get a bonus to Int and Cha.&nbsp; Which also invalidates the assumptions about one body and one mind bonus.&nbsp; Several of the monster races in the MM also get bonuses so the same types of attributes.It is a game people and just because half elves are not legendarily tough like dwarves does not mean they aren't tough.&nbsp; It just means people don't know they are tough.Chimps get loads of credit for being smart.&nbsp; Dogs though can perform many cognitive tasks chimps find elusive.&nbsp; Does that mean chimps are smarter then dogs or that they both are smart but in different ways?Obviously you can house rule things in your game to be the way you like, but when you do so you run into the rule of unintended consequences.Take the proposed teifling half elf stat switch.&nbsp; Teiflings may have been the discoverers of infernal warlockery but that doesn't mean they are its greatest practitioners.&nbsp; The Chinese discovered gun powder but it took infernally clever Europeans to make actual guns.&nbsp; So who was the master of gun powder?&nbsp; Neither actually, but that's beside the pointTeiflings are heavier then humans becuase they have a friggin tail.&nbsp; Tails being full of bones and flesh have weight.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aservan, post: 4345941, member: 63340"] Umm. Teiflings don't get a bonus to Dex. They get a bonus to Int and Cha. Which also invalidates the assumptions about one body and one mind bonus. Several of the monster races in the MM also get bonuses so the same types of attributes. It is a game people and just because half elves are not legendarily tough like dwarves does not mean they aren't tough. It just means people don't know they are tough. Chimps get loads of credit for being smart. Dogs though can perform many cognitive tasks chimps find elusive. Does that mean chimps are smarter then dogs or that they both are smart but in different ways? Obviously you can house rule things in your game to be the way you like, but when you do so you run into the rule of unintended consequences. Take the proposed teifling half elf stat switch. Teiflings may have been the discoverers of infernal warlockery but that doesn't mean they are its greatest practitioners. The Chinese discovered gun powder but it took infernally clever Europeans to make actual guns. So who was the master of gun powder? Neither actually, but that's beside the point Teiflings are heavier then humans becuase they have a friggin tail. Tails being full of bones and flesh have weight. [/QUOTE]

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