iserith
Magic Wordsmith
Now there I will agree!I think aarakocra should be banned altogether just because it's an annoying word to spell.
I think this speaks to a point I made upthread that often the objection to the flying race is the kind of player that is attracted to it or the tactics the player is using. So it's not really about the tool but the person wielding it and how.But seriously, I really want flying PCs in my game. I love the dramatic aspect of having encounters on the Y axis. But it's a drag a lot of the time. Yeah, you can do this and that with setting and range fighting to accommodate a flying PC but there you are, doing it, putting their advantages before your imagination. Or ignoring it, and having them park somewhere and meta the hell out of everything.
And boy, if you do hit one with a range weapon after they haven't taken damage in a dozen or so straight encounters, be prepared for the moaning. I have a player who is still complaining about getting hit by a longbow from a Yuan-Ti Abomination once. Apparently it's preposterous that a creature of this kind would have one. Wait until he runs into my dwarves with home-brewed bola-bows.
I have a human wizard in my swamp hexcrawl right now who rolled poorly on Constitution, so the running joke is that he always stays on the very edge of the map, face down in leafy water, to avoid any attention. This disincentivizes ranged attacks against him and, provided the rest of the party does their job, the melee monsters are not getting up to him. So for all intents and purposes, this character may as well be a flying PC in that I rarely get to him. And even ranged attacks against him are problematic as compared to attacking a flying PC!