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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 7404917" data-attributes="member: 58172">How to impose a characteristic ‘flaw’ of a heritage is a good question. I am still thinking about it.At least my initial feeling is, dont. Make such flaws part of the flaw system in the personality traits, alongside quirks and ideals. Certain heritages can recommend certain quirks, ideals, and flaws. A character flaw can easily be, ‘I tend to walk at a slower pace than most humans’.With regard to speed, it should correlate with the Athletic skill anyway. Athletic characters can move faster, run faster, climb faster, swim faster.I am less of a fan of slowed movement anyway, because it interferes with group movement. But at least as part of a feat, I could avoid it.Certain feats could conceivably impose a mechanical flaw along with its mechanical benefit. Albeit, this method of flaw troubles me because a flaw tends to be easy to work around thus to be more for flavor. Giving a benefit in exchange for a flaw virtually never works.I feel the elf heritage works best as a menu of feats to choose from. If one wants Charisma, then boost that, if one wants Misty Step then choose that, if one wants Dexterity and longbow mastery, then pick that. And so on. Ease of customizing the elf would prevent the need for an inordinate amount of elf writeups. Sun elf (eladrin) would associate with certain feats, high elf with other feats, wood, grugach, aquatic, drow, whatever. But all of them would be ‘elf heritage’, and easy to mix and match.Also, using feats as the design space for heritage would make it easy for the DM to create and customize heritages for a setting. Just write up some feats, and players who want it will choose it.I feel ‘size’ correlates directly with hit points and the Constitution score. So ‘Tiny’ means squishy with low Constitution (at most 5), and ‘Huge’ means tank with high Constitution (at least 21). If one wants a big character, up the Constitution. If one wants a little character think about the consequences.Note the D&D dwarf is massive horizontally, so deserves the high Constitution score.Something like:CONSTITUTION SCORE: APPROXIMATE SIZE• 25-26, 27-28: Gargantuan• 22-23, 24-25: Huge• 18-19, 20-21: Large• 14-15, 16-17: Heavyweight (Medium)• 10-11, 12-13: Lightweight (Medium)• 6-7, 8-9: Small• 2-3, 4-5: Tiny</blockquote>

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