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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8109995" data-attributes="member: 6801845"><p>It's not just that change is hard (and the game has evolved with every edition) it's that change can also have unexpected consequences and this feels like a fairly fundamental change. I haven't decided if it's going to affect my home game or not, but when we can play in person again I had planned on getting involved in AL again where this rule will be in place.</p><p></p><p>It just means that if I want to play against type (I've played dwarven wizards, half-orc monk and so on) I can't do that any more. Every race "fits" every class and archetype now. Every race becomes ever more generic, ever more just a funny accent with a different mask. I'd actually prefer penalties for every race, so that I could have the ugliest dwarf in the land* who was convinced he had a future in showbiz because he rolled a 20 on a performance check while the bard rolled a 1 in a contest.</p><p></p><p>I get that certain sacred cows should be taken out back and put out of their misery. I'm just not sure this is one of them.</p><p><em></em></p><p><em>*in Living Greyhawk I had a dwarf with a 5 charisma because of a curse</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 8109995, member: 6801845"] It's not just that change is hard (and the game has evolved with every edition) it's that change can also have unexpected consequences and this feels like a fairly fundamental change. I haven't decided if it's going to affect my home game or not, but when we can play in person again I had planned on getting involved in AL again where this rule will be in place. It just means that if I want to play against type (I've played dwarven wizards, half-orc monk and so on) I can't do that any more. Every race "fits" every class and archetype now. Every race becomes ever more generic, ever more just a funny accent with a different mask. I'd actually prefer penalties for every race, so that I could have the ugliest dwarf in the land* who was convinced he had a future in showbiz because he rolled a 20 on a performance check while the bard rolled a 1 in a contest. I get that certain sacred cows should be taken out back and put out of their misery. I'm just not sure this is one of them. [I] *in Living Greyhawk I had a dwarf with a 5 charisma because of a curse[/I] [/QUOTE]
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