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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8513115" data-attributes="member: 6915329">No, I didn't miss your point. I get it; I just disagree. While I'm sure there are still many groups who learned how to game without any more experienced players teaching them the ropes, I'm also sure there are many new players who are taught by people who can help them make the "best" choice, for whatever their definition of best is. Plus, anyone past that first character or five doesn't need the cookie cutter. They just need to read the text or look at the art to decide.Secondly, if the racial ASI becomes a floating ASI, and even a total newbie will be able to understand "fighters need a high Strength, therefore, I should put my +2 in Strength." That's a lot simpler than looking through each race, finding the ones with a Strength bonus, and then deciding which of those races also has the most interesting traits and cultural fluff. Especially if this newbie picks something that has some baggage to it. "Sure, you can play a bugbear to get that +2 Strength, but... bugbears are mostly monsters and most humanoids are going to be really wary of you and other goblinoids and orcs think that bugbears are stupid and lazy and aren't going to treat you well..." Saying "pick which race has the most interesting bits to you. Then add a +2 to one stat and a +1 to another" is tons easier.Which I find incredibly boring. +2 to a stat, either a skill or darkvision, and a feat. There's no cool racial fluff, like trancing or knowing about stonework or being able to talk to small animals. There's nothing in Tasha's that lets me feel like I'm playing a member of a race. There's literally no difference (other than maybe choosing darkvision instead of a skill) between that an playing a variant human.So why is picking a race you want and putting the +2 where you want minmaxing, but picking a race because it gives you a +2 in the class's primary stat not minmaxing?How are you penalized? If you want to play an orc, you can put the +2 in Strength. If the books have a race that's described as strong, has art that shows them as muscled, has a trait like Powerful Build, and is known in pop culture as being strong, why do you also need the books to suggest that they get a +2 in Strength? I would think that would be a pretty easy conclusion to draw.</blockquote>

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