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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 8119003" data-attributes="member: 7635">I'm not so sure. Part of the issue is that people feel penalized for picking unoptimized race class combos over optimized ones. I doubt that now that any race can be optimal, they will opt for only the two extreme cases. Put another way: right now half-elves are optimized for charisma classes (sorcerer, bard, warlock, paladin). If your theory is true, no other charisma race (tiefling, aasimar, changeling or any of the +1 races) would see any play when half-elf is an option. I don't think that's very true. I guess you could pull dndbeyond stats to track that, or do polling of some type to figure that out, but my hunch is that they aren't overrepresented in the Cha races as we speak. I suspect that the same is true of mountain dwarves and Str/con races. The players who don't care what race they are in hopes of optimizing benefits were already picking the best race and those who picked races because "it's a half-demon man" are happy they can play a fighter or rogue with a 16. I think the idea people will automatically go to the min max option is a bit overrated.</blockquote>