D&D 5E Is Tasha's Broken?

[Vaalingrade]

Choose some consistent logic on which the design principles are based, this sort of incoherence is just infuriating.

This is D&D.

Inconsistent design principles is what we do here.

 

[Maxperson]

Do you literally build every NPC from the PH rules for their species?

When I use one with stats, yes. If I grab the cultist template from the MM and give it a race, I alter the stats to include those racial bonuses.

 

[Oofta]

~Looks at goliath art featuring big hulking strong dudes universally~

Alright, fam.

Which again assumes that people are looking up information on goliaths. Why would someone even know what a goliath looks like if they have no current interest in playing one?

 

[Vaalingrade]

When I use one with stats, yes. If I grab the cultist template from the MM and give it a race, I alter the stats to include those racial bonuses.

And you would still be able to give those with strengthliness a +2 and force players the take it too if you're really feeling your Wheaties after the fact without that being enforced on everyone in the hobby and normalized by the IP holders.

 

[Maxperson]

And you would still be able to give those with strengthliness a +2 and force players the take it too if you're really feeling your Wheaties after the fact without that being enforced on everyone in the hobby and normalized by the IP holders.

You miss the point. The next time WotC makes a new race, there will be no racial bonuses attached. Those are gone. The new PHB will not have them in it. How am I supposed to know what bonuses the new races get? How the hell are new players supposed to know to add those things back in? WotC is not changing PCs of the race. They are changing the entire race.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Which again assumes that people are looking up information on goliaths. Why would someone even know what a goliath looks like if they have no current interest in playing one?

If they have no current interest in playing one, they aren't looking at raw state lines either.

How would people know Tabaxi were cat people without seeing pictures? Do they need a 'lick privates and still manage to look imperious' ability? Not really.

 

[Maxperson]

If they have no current interest in playing one, they aren't looking at raw state lines either.

Arkansas has +2 con, -2 cha.

 

[Vaalingrade]

You miss the point. The next time WotC makes a new race, there will be no racial bonuses attached. Those are gone.

Hooray! ~Does some light, nerdish dancing~

The new PHB will not have them in it. How the hell are new players supposed to know to add those things back in?

New players won't care. They haven't had decades of tradition and inertia enforcing it. Other games manage to do this and WotC is finally getting with the times.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Arkansas has +2 con, -2 cha.

~Waits patiently for someone from Arkansas to turn this into an 18 page flame war~

 

[Oofta]

Arkansas has +2 con, -2 cha.

What does that mean for Florida?