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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 5790830" data-attributes="member: 32536">I think Mr. Cook has got the right ordering, though unlike some people here I'd argue that ability scores are too high, rather than too low. The fact that he has them at number three just reinforces the idea that the new edition will make detailed customization more optional.Anyways, I like the idea of making race more important of a choice than it has been in most older editions. It needs to be more important than ability scores, at the very least, if you want it to mean anything more than a mere choice for what kinds of funny ears your characters have on their heads. Many earlier editions really did reduce racial choices to being different variants of extremely humanlike, which limits the game. Instead of playable lycanthropes we got shifters. Instead of playable angels and devils we got tieflings and devas. Instead of playable dragons we got dragonborn. If you want decent racial choices to even be options in the game, the choice of race needs to matter a lot more than it has in the past.</blockquote>