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<blockquote data-quote="GlassJaw" data-source="post: 7884598" data-attributes="member: 22103">The short answer is humans are underpowered. Variant human is better but being the only race that gets a feat (in a game with a broken feat system) is clunky design.Here's my &quot;fix&quot;:[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.enworld.org/threads/buffing-human-and-removing-variant-human.667109/[/URL]This +1The long answer is the racial ability modifiers are too limiting. 5E's strength is that it is extremely modular and very reslient to tweaking because of bounded accuracy. You could simply let every character get 3 &quot;free&quot; ability points to put wherever they want and call it a day. But the current racial ability mods &quot;force&quot; choices. Yes, I know an ability score that's 1 or 2 points lower isn't going to matter in the long run but it absolutely does in the short term and it will affect the choice for a sizable group of players (myself included to some extent).I want more choice but I still would like to see racial modifiers preserved in some way. I've been working on some hybrid systems, similar to the &quot;Reimagining&quot; article.I've been tinkering with giving each race/subrace 1-2 &quot;core&quot; abilities. A player can then spend 3 bonus points among their core racial abilities and an ability of their choice or maybe 1-2 based on class. I think it in theory but still feels a bit clunky.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GlassJaw, post: 7884598, member: 22103"] The short answer is humans are underpowered. Variant human is better but being the only race that gets a feat (in a game with a broken feat system) is clunky design. Here's my "fix": [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.enworld.org/threads/buffing-human-and-removing-variant-human.667109/[/URL] This +1 The long answer is the racial ability modifiers are too limiting. 5E's strength is that it is extremely modular and very reslient to tweaking because of bounded accuracy. You could simply let every character get 3 "free" ability points to put wherever they want and call it a day. But the current racial ability mods "force" choices. Yes, I know an ability score that's 1 or 2 points lower isn't going to matter in the long run but it absolutely does in the short term and it will affect the choice for a sizable group of players (myself included to some extent). I want more choice but I still would like to see racial modifiers preserved in some way. I've been working on some hybrid systems, similar to the "Reimagining" article. I've been tinkering with giving each race/subrace 1-2 "core" abilities. A player can then spend 3 bonus points among their core racial abilities and an ability of their choice or maybe 1-2 based on class. I think it in theory but still feels a bit clunky. [/QUOTE]

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