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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6849314" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Say I'm a variant human Fighter with rolled stats 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12. As part of my racial package I take +1 to Str and +1 to Con and the Heavy Armor Master feat, plus Giant language and proficiency in Perception. I adventure for a long time and reach Fighter 1/Sorcerer 19, pumping all of my ASIs into Cha except the last one which I spend on Spell Sniper.At this point I am a Fighter 1/Sorcerer 19 with Str 13 Dex 12 Con 13 Int 12 Wis 12 Cha 20, Heavy Armor Master, Spell Sniper, and skills Athletics, Stealth, Perception, Animal Handling, and Investigation. (The latter two from my background.)Now I die and am reincarnated into a Tiefling. At this point, a strict reading of the Reincarnate spell says that I lose my variant human benefits and gain tiefling benefits. So now I'm a Str 12 Dex 12 Con 12 Int 13 Wis 12 Cha 22 Tiefling with Spell Sniper and skills Athletics, Stealth, Animal Handling, and Investigation, plus proficiency in some Tiefling language, probably Infernal. If I don't remember which skill came from my variant human background I may have to choose randomly which skill I lose. The same thing could potentially apply to feats, if I don't know which feats came at first level (e.g. because the PC was created at higher-than-first level). Furthermore, I no longer qualify to multiclass out of Fighter, and I've broken the Cha 20 cap.Also, what happens if I now get Reincarnated again back into a human? Can I pick new feats? Can I now be a Mobile Str 12 Dex 12 Con 13 Int 12 Wis 12 Cha 21 human?This all seems like a huge mess. As a DM, it seems like the simplest thing is to either ban Reincarnate entirely (and give druids Raise Dead to compensate) or go full old-school and make them roll up a new character who retains nothing but vague memories of his old life and (some fraction of) his old XP total. Roll new stats, choose a new class, establish new relationships/romances/friendships/enemies because you're no longer really the same character (although maybe you can get some memories back via powerful magic). Which of these two options I picked would depend upon how gonzo my players wanted to be in this campaign--some people like chaos.DMs, how do you deal with reincarnating as a radically different race, and how do you personally deal with skills/weapon proficiencies/feats/ASIs/etc.? I'm curious.</blockquote>

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