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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreenTengu" data-source="post: 7250098" data-attributes="member: 6777454">Hey, I am not going to deny that a good part of my "crusade" against Volos was stating up the Hobgoblin race with an +2 in objectively the worst attribute in the game even though it doesn't remotely fit the racial concept and then "investing" all of the rest of the racial abilities into weapon and armor proficiency that are effectively thrown out if you choose any class that sensibly matches the racial concept... and finally topping it off by giving them a racial ability that is entirely dependent on party size while violating the fundamental concepts of the game by absolutely indicating success or failure before you even use it.But, from the Bugbear's fundamental ability to output more damage than any other race in the game to the Kobold's insane party boosting ability to Firbolg's ability to turn invisible indefinitely until they attack someone... there is so much in that book that is just fundamentally terribly designed, like the person writing it had no idea how the game actually works.The ones that aren't bad are Aasimar and Goliath. Triton is also not hugely off the mark, maybe just a little underwhelming. All the rest have some pretty serious balance issues.</blockquote>