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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scott Christian" data-source="post: 9109137" data-attributes="member: 6901101">Again, I beg to differ. If you are saying the classes have a 30% differential in how good they are, then the races are at 10% differential. That +1 across the board goes a long way for people who roll abilities. Heck, it goes a long way for point buy. Unless of course, you have a player that absolutely-must-cannotlivewithout- have a 17 for their starting ability. Which is the same as 16, which a human can get. On top of that, that +1 goes great for certain classes, such as a paladin who needs strength, charisma, con, and sometimes wisdom. And pigeonholing is a part of balance. Although what the PHB is not really pigeonholing anyways. It was a slight nod to the traditional trope. Although, at the table, if you were playing a half-orc champion and someone else was playing a human champion, I doubt, unless told specifically, anyone could really tell the difference. A circumstance here or there does not destroy balance. I mean, the dice rolls have greater swing than any racial feat.So, it's not valid for a player to have the opinion of they want a more consistent world, and not have hundreds of mechagodzillas running around? And, to be clear, I did not play the yuan-ti. Two separate players chose to make a yuan-ti. They didn't care about the table. They cared about making the strongest character they could.</blockquote>