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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreenTengu" data-source="post: 8114002" data-attributes="member: 6777454">All the fretting about small races with 20 strength is amusing. Do the people complaining about that have access to a different D&D 5E than me?Who would even bother making such a character? Strength is never worth taking in this edition unless you are using a 2-handed martial weapon. Otherwise? Always go Dex.Dexterity is THE initiative stat. It is the primary defensive stat (ac and most frequent save), it is THE stat for ranged combat and works just as well for melee combat as strength. Dexterity also has the best combat skill attached to it-- stealth.You have to pump your Dex to max to be a good Rogue or Monk, there is no substitute. But Dex freely substitutes in for Str if you are a Fighter, it is in fact the superior build, and the extra bonuses that come with it probably make it the better choice for Paladin too. And while I haven't seen a Dex-based Barbarian, I suspect getting to utilize stealth and acrobatics and getting better Dex saves probably means it, at worst, breaks even.Seriously-- the DM could houserule combining Strength and Constitution into one stat and characters would still be better off boosting Dexterity.So who is going to take strength (or Con) on their character if they can take Dexterity instead?And finally-- do you know what effect being "small" has? I bet you are thinking it boosts or AC or helps you to hide or improves escape artist or-- no.It just means you can't use two-handed martial weapons. You know-- the only weapon option that requires one to use Strength instead of Dex and thus the only reason to bother putting a single point into Strength in the entire edition. And that supposed 20 Strength Halfling or Gnome can't even use them anyway. (Oh, they also do crappier in grapple checks, but no one uses those anyway.)So why all the fuss about a build no one is going to take rather than all the Dex 20 Dwarfs, Orcs and Tieflings that will now come flooding in?I suspect we will be seeing way more parties where not only does no one have an Intelligence higher than 10, no one will have a Strength higher than 10 either. All characters, regardless of race or class, will be max dex and max cha.</blockquote>

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