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Just remove all racial ability bonuses and tweak the point buy system:
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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8093776" data-attributes="member: 93670"><p>No it works perfectly fine & just as well as if sailor gave +1 dex +1 float</p><p>[ATTACH=full]126597[/ATTACH]</p><p>Even if you found a +1dex/+1cha background you will still have +2/+2. Your ''smooth talking, swashbuckling type pirate" even has ability mods amounting to +2 for dexterity constitution, & charisma setting hi aside from some other background. End result is that your background actually helps shape who your character <em>is</em> are rather than just existing to give skills & ignore the rest of the meaningless fluff on your spreadsheet. You are trying to justify a cold numbercrunching spreadsheet level take on character building by dressing it in a thin veneer of "role playing." what is most interesting about that attempt s that the part of my post to set you off appears to be the suggestion that you talk to your gm & see if you can work something out to go flat +2 rather than +1$attrib +1 float while cloaking spreadsheet McCrunch in roleplay to do it. Your 'smooth talking, swashbuckling type pirate" is just as ideal as some other combo & not suboptimal or anything because everyone playing in a game using the same rules for character creation is the norm. If that's not "ideal", what is?. Is it more a problem that sailor gives <em>"Athletics, and one of Acrobatics or Perception, Navigator’s tools, vehicles (water)"</em> rather than stealth deception & thieve's tools?</p><p></p><p>edit: Personally I would rather see a lower array with more room for gradual accumulation of magic items baked into the system than 5e's attrib=19.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 8093776, member: 93670"] No it works perfectly fine & just as well as if sailor gave +1 dex +1 float [ATTACH type="full" alt="1600817793952.png"]126597[/ATTACH] Even if you found a +1dex/+1cha background you will still have +2/+2. Your ''smooth talking, swashbuckling type pirate" even has ability mods amounting to +2 for dexterity constitution, & charisma setting hi aside from some other background. End result is that your background actually helps shape who your character [I]is[/I] are rather than just existing to give skills & ignore the rest of the meaningless fluff on your spreadsheet. You are trying to justify a cold numbercrunching spreadsheet level take on character building by dressing it in a thin veneer of "role playing." what is most interesting about that attempt s that the part of my post to set you off appears to be the suggestion that you talk to your gm & see if you can work something out to go flat +2 rather than +1$attrib +1 float while cloaking spreadsheet McCrunch in roleplay to do it. Your 'smooth talking, swashbuckling type pirate" is just as ideal as some other combo & not suboptimal or anything because everyone playing in a game using the same rules for character creation is the norm. If that's not "ideal", what is?. Is it more a problem that sailor gives [I]"Athletics, and one of Acrobatics or Perception, Navigator’s tools, vehicles (water)"[/I] rather than stealth deception & thieve's tools? edit: Personally I would rather see a lower array with more room for gradual accumulation of magic items baked into the system than 5e's attrib=19. [/QUOTE]
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