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<blockquote data-quote="Kannik" data-source="post: 8510897" data-attributes="member: 984"><p>To me, the assertion that WotC is homogenizing all races and they will soon be indistinguishable doesn’t hold water. Dragonborn breathe fire. Dwarves resist poison. Gnomes cast illusions and talk to animals. Aarakocra fly. Aasimar transform. Harengon jump. High elves come with magic, resist charm, and don’t sleep. These are all quite varied and far more interesting and flavorful than attribute bonuses. (Not to mention that adventurers are so out of the ordinary that they often would break any typical mold anyway.) And as for skill, tool, or weapon proficiencies and the like, what a character would be exposed to should be heavily dependent on their upbringing and the culture of their area, the latter of which would be quite varied for all races just as it is here on earth. Then there’s the aspect of if the character grew up in a large and diverse city, or not in their race’s ‘traditional’ society. It feels far more proper that these aspects would be tied to race and nothing else.</p><p></p><p>If anything, without the designers leaning on ability score or proficiency crutches this has the potential to be even more exciting and used as an impetus to develop more unique and meaningful features, like dragon breath, added as racial options. Whether they’ll lean into something selectable like backgrounds for culture/upbringing and associated proficiencies (which would still include the more traditional elven, dwarven, etc societies) is to be seen, though of course that would be neat and could even, like backgrounds, nicely include additional adjunct features and capabilities.</p><p></p><p>Either way, dragon breath and their ilk are all far more impactful, meaningful, and distinguishing than a +2 to STR or gaining proficiency with a stick.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kannik, post: 8510897, member: 984"] To me, the assertion that WotC is homogenizing all races and they will soon be indistinguishable doesn’t hold water. Dragonborn breathe fire. Dwarves resist poison. Gnomes cast illusions and talk to animals. Aarakocra fly. Aasimar transform. Harengon jump. High elves come with magic, resist charm, and don’t sleep. These are all quite varied and far more interesting and flavorful than attribute bonuses. (Not to mention that adventurers are so out of the ordinary that they often would break any typical mold anyway.) And as for skill, tool, or weapon proficiencies and the like, what a character would be exposed to should be heavily dependent on their upbringing and the culture of their area, the latter of which would be quite varied for all races just as it is here on earth. Then there’s the aspect of if the character grew up in a large and diverse city, or not in their race’s ‘traditional’ society. It feels far more proper that these aspects would be tied to race and nothing else. If anything, without the designers leaning on ability score or proficiency crutches this has the potential to be even more exciting and used as an impetus to develop more unique and meaningful features, like dragon breath, added as racial options. Whether they’ll lean into something selectable like backgrounds for culture/upbringing and associated proficiencies (which would still include the more traditional elven, dwarven, etc societies) is to be seen, though of course that would be neat and could even, like backgrounds, nicely include additional adjunct features and capabilities. Either way, dragon breath and their ilk are all far more impactful, meaningful, and distinguishing than a +2 to STR or gaining proficiency with a stick. [/QUOTE]
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