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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwoSix" data-source="post: 8609190" data-attributes="member: 205">Nah, it just meant there were a few races I like that I didn't roll with because the stats didn't match up for my current interests.  I mean, there are dozens of characters I would like to try at some point, but there's just not enough time to try them all, even with 4 groups going.  Restricting that set to appropriately-statted races is a minor sacrifice.And I can't imagine looking at that and not feeling a little skeeved-out, when I could have played a human fighter with a 16 Str AND either PAM or GWM instead.  Or a 16 Dex and SS.  I mean, getting a 10 Cha instead of an 8 is so....vestigal.  It's like taking mountain dwarf fighter and wasting that medium armor proficiency.  It's just....ugh.  Honestly, it's totally irrelevant that I would be behind the other PCs.  The issue is that I'm behind a better choice I could have made.I'm assuming that if ASIs were removed, the point-buy/array/rolling systems would be modified as well to give higher baselines.  And if the ASIs weren't present at all, then tiefling fighter is no longer behind other choices I could have made, and thus doesn't elicit that squicky feeling.Realistically, this is an aesthetic/psychological preference.  If you can see those race/class combinations and it doesn't make you feel kinda gross (or at least give you that "stone in my shoe" feeling), there's really no way to explain it to you.</blockquote>

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