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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8114993" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Yeah. Half-elves are already literally better at doing anything Dragonborn might want to do. Skills and extra stats, advantage on saves vs. charmed and immunity to sleep, and darkvision? And Dragonborn gets, by comparison, a piddly-nothing breath weapon (that only recharges on a short rest, mind) and resistance to a single element? Wow, I'm so underwhelmed.I won't deny that I'm a huge fan of Dragonborn, so seeing them comparatively crapped on compared to pretty much every alternative hurts more. But the balance of race design has never been particularly rigorous in 5e. Letting any race have any stat bonuses is still a step in the right direction, though I absolutely think people should have to choose EITHER "+2 to any one, +1 to any other, proficiency, feat" or "default package, no changes," not mixing the two. I agree that that is a boneheaded move because just adding versatility to the equation while keeping EVERYTHING else exactly the same doesn't actually fix the problem, it just makes the problem a little harder to see.</blockquote>