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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9220497" data-attributes="member: 7006">I like where [USER=58172]@Yaarel[/USER]'s head is at with this idea.&nbsp; Because there have been players who have stated quite clearly that they need Elves to have a +2 to Dexterity in order for their Elf to feel like an Elf... the idea that you can just make an &quot;Elven Background&quot; can give you what you want (the +2 to DEX for being an Elf) even if that +2 doesn't appear in the the Species write-up.&nbsp; That is a really lovely work around.Now granted... if &quot;Species Cultural Backgrounds&quot; do not appear within the 5E24 PHB we will still see some people all bent out of shape about Species lacking ability score bonuses (because those people just don't believe things are real in the game unless they actually get written down by WotC and published in a book)... but for everyone else, this is their way of getting what they want to a certain extent (something demarcated as expressly related to a species that grants an ability score bonus) while also gives WotC what they want (not painting all members of a Species with the same exact brush.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 9220497, member: 7006"] I like where [USER=58172]@Yaarel[/USER]'s head is at with this idea. Because there have been players who have stated quite clearly that they need Elves to have a +2 to Dexterity in order for their Elf to feel like an Elf... the idea that you can just make an "Elven Background" can give you what you want (the +2 to DEX for being an Elf) even if that +2 doesn't appear in the the Species write-up. That is a really lovely work around. Now granted... if "Species Cultural Backgrounds" do not appear within the 5E24 PHB we will still see some people all bent out of shape about Species lacking ability score bonuses (because those people just don't believe things are [I]real [/I]in the game unless they actually get written down by WotC and published in a book)... but for everyone else, this is their way of getting what they want to a certain extent (something demarcated as expressly related to a species that grants an ability score bonus) while also gives WotC what they want (not painting all members of a Species with the same exact brush.) [/QUOTE]

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