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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8749751" data-attributes="member: 6988941">Generally it gets a better ASI than the old Variant and free inspiration in exchange for being limited to a still fairly strong list of feats. How that's remotely "terrible" by comparison for a typical player I don't know.However the new Human is terrible compared to the variant human if you absolutely had your heart set on starting with some specific feat. There are definitely powergamer reasons to do this, but they might also just have a specific concept around a specific feat. Personally as someone who has yet to get around to rolling up a post-Tasha's level 1 Sorcerer I would be real disappointed if I couldn't start with the metamagic feat, because I think the first tier of the class probably plays a lot better with that. I suppose that's a powergaming desire on some level, but it's also a matter of finding the design of a class that never really worked for me improved by the feat.Personally I dislike the new human for the same reason I dislike the Variant human. Compared to the standard human they are paying extra ability score points for a feat versus what they would if they just waited for an ASI. Yes I understand why that results in a more powerful character, it still rankles me to do in principle.</blockquote>