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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9108201" data-attributes="member: 18">If we really look hard at the mechanics and their benefits, sure, but it's something that really speaks to players and that they - perhaps irrationally - really care about. I've seen this through 34 years of D&D. Lots of races may very little mechanical difference, but boy do players care about them, even when they don't actually matter. Even species which are mechanically bad but stylish do better than ones which are mechanically great but uncool to most (sorry dwarves, you've got a small but loyal following!).And that's the main thing - so long as people feel like they're being represented, they're not likely to micro-examine the system. But it's worth discussing because the previous WotC proposal, which in the poll on the other thread, still has 67% of people here believing will stay (?!?!?), and quite aside from being something that only an American (and probably only a white American of at least 40 years of age) could even come up with a as "good idea" absolutely was not giving people that "represented/seen" vibe, and it was additionally pissing a lot of people who are just RPers and into a specific deal.</blockquote>