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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scott Christian" data-source="post: 8122727" data-attributes="member: 6901101">If that is the fear, that someone starting with a 16 or 17 instead of 15 makes them a lot smarter, then indeed you are correct. I guess I just choose to be an optimist about race, believing 5% doesn't mean a whole lot. Someone tests with a 105 IQ or 100 IQ, I can't spot the difference.I would reread what you wrote. The debate, as I have said twenty times, is that by making races homogenous via attributes, you lose racial patterns, which in turn, loses lore and could possibly damper some people's RP'ing experience. You would not concede anything by saying: "Actually it will help lore. Here is how..."That is what I call playing devil's advocate! If I line up 100 people who know what an orc is, and ask them that question, most, possibly with a percentage greater than 90%, will say strength. You decide to view it through a different lens, that's cool. But the correct answer is strength. The question reads "BEST DESCRIBES." You see, combine this with what is in the PHB:"They (orcs) tend to be short-tempered and sometimes sullen, more inclined to action than contemplation and to fighting than arguing." (pg. 41) That is the opposite of wise. It is the need to be physical. Orcs are also large; six to seven feet and 180 to 250 pounds.But whatever Chaos, choose to interpret it whatever way you want. That's what you do. But if the question reads BEST DESCRIBES and you are insistent that you are correct, even when you know the majority of players would say strength, then there is no reason to point anything out to you. You feel strongly you're way is better, no matter what it might do to other players. You can call it truth, I call it a lack of empathy.</blockquote>

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