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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kalmi" data-source="post: 9110055" data-attributes="member: 7040713">I feel like with D&D races, as they've been developed for so long, there is barely even a concept of how you might balance racial abilities. Like with classes, it's fairly easy to compare because everything is broken up into discrete chunks, you have 1st level stuff, features you get at later levels, subclasses, etc. It's very easy to compare classes and see where things might break, obviously they don't balance things perfectly for a variety of reasons, but there is at least a framework for comparison. Racial benefits are just like "here's a bunch of things, maybe some will be good for your character, but maybe not!" And then you have racial abilities like "see in the literal g*-d**** dark like a vampire" vs. "You can tell how old this rock is maybe."There's just so much that is obviously there because of tradition and only minimal effort made to balance abilities. So I do think that players choosing from a list of inherited traits might be a better system (definitely better than "you are purely this race despite mixed heritage") but it would only work well with a complete rewrite of the system for "species" abilities which is obviously not going to happen in this revision.</blockquote>