D&D 5E House Rules for DnD Next

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I have come to really enjoy the 'humans get +1 to all stats' thing simply because of the simplicity. It makes humans an easy yet potent choice for those who don't want to deal with added complexity on their character. If you change it so they 'get an extra feat', for instance, that does the exact opposite of making things more simple...

And Feats are now completely optional.

 

[Jeff Carlsen]

I have come to really enjoy the 'humans get +1 to all stats' thing simply because of the simplicity. It makes humans an easy yet potent choice for those who don't want to deal with added complexity on their character. If you change it so they 'get an extra feat', for instance, that does the exact opposite of making things more simple...

While simplicity is great, it's not worth shifting the entire baseline of the ability scores, or destroying the concept of racial differences. The only reason we have both an ability score and an ability mod is because humans are supposed to fall upon the bell curve of 3d6. Other races are suppose to differ from that baseline. If you do away with that, then you've done away with one of the fundamental traditions in D&D. Ability scores lose their meaning, and we may as well do away with them in favor of just having the modifier.