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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8455660" data-attributes="member: 29398">Which is perfectly fine.Some fantasy species are simply, on average, flat-out better or worse at some things than other fantasy species simply due to what they are, and I for one have no problem with the mechanics reflecting this.On average Orcs are stronger than Humans, who in turn are stronger than Hobbits.  Dwarves are tougher than Humans.  Elves are more dextrous than...well, pretty much everybody.  The same holds true for Int, Wis and Cha* between species; so slap on the requisite bonuses and penalties and let's get on with the game. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />* - one thing I don't think 5e has kept is the idea of one's apparent Charisma being different based on who you're dealing with; for example a Dwarf who is Cha 13 to Humans might count as Cha 15 when dealing with other Dwarves and come across as only Cha 11 when dealing with Elves.</blockquote>