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Message: <blockquote data-quote="deadwor1d" data-source="post: 5936974" data-attributes="member: 64654">Ok, so if humans are the baseline when considering power level for the other races, then they should have no specific modifiers to abilities. I DO like an idea someone posted about a second background, or maybe a modifer to trained skills.That said, and I can't believe I am saying this, the other races need penalties of various flavors to offset in order to provide balance (not in a gamist sense, but in what races are chosen by the players--or maybe those two work hand in hand? I dunno. I am just flinging thoughts onto my keyboard and hoping they arrange themselves in some cogent fashion.). So with NO modifiers, you have your simplicity. With the other races having penalties, you don't get 'everyone is an elf' syndrome.Maybe:Elves are haughty and aloof, providing penalties to social interactions when dealing with non-elves. Maybe also hit them with a -1 Strength penalty or something.Dwarves come with a speed penalty (though this is somewhat offset by the heavy armor/encumbered thing). Throw in a charisma penalty because they tend to be gruff and grumbly.Halflings are little, so move slower. Archetypical (read Tolkien) halflings also tend to be naive, so some sort of penalty introduced to reflect their interactions in 'the big city'. Maybe even a -1 penalty to Intelligence? I dunno. See earlier comment about random thoughts.As far as what race is the most populous in your game world, that's entirely on the DM (with player input if that's your thing). Has very little to do with what should be considered baseline from a design perspective.End result, there should be a downside to choosing to be special. A trade-off of some sort. Do I want to see a return of level caps? No. At a conceptual level, this just fails. Sorry, Gary.</blockquote>

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