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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 8510615" data-attributes="member: 20564">I have a slightly different take on this.&nbsp; When you eliminate ability scores, there is precious little power in racial features.&nbsp; This leads to issues where there isn't enough design space to do races with somewhat powerful abilities.&nbsp; Centaurs are really medium-sized pony-people, who can't even be ridden by normal sized folk.&nbsp; And remember the outcry when the first race with unlimited flying came about?All in all, if trhere were more meaningful features for play, there would be an opportunity cost for picking a race that focused these into just a few powerful abilities, like large size (Centaur or Half-Ogre, anyone).So I don't think it's the number, since I can easily see some with a selection of features and then somethign with just a few features but it can fly.&nbsp; But I do think that the whole amount of power and meaningful play impact from races needs to increase so they are truly a pillar of character creation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue, post: 8510615, member: 20564"] I have a slightly different take on this. When you eliminate ability scores, there is precious little power in racial features. This leads to issues where there isn't enough design space to do races with somewhat powerful abilities. Centaurs are really medium-sized pony-people, who can't even be ridden by normal sized folk. And remember the outcry when the first race with unlimited flying came about? All in all, if trhere were more meaningful features for play, there would be an opportunity cost for picking a race that focused these into just a few powerful abilities, like large size (Centaur or Half-Ogre, anyone). So I don't think it's the number, since I can easily see some with a selection of features and then somethign with just a few features but it can fly. But I do think that the whole amount of power and meaningful play impact from races needs to increase so they are truly a pillar of character creation. [/QUOTE]

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