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<blockquote data-quote="Bacon Bits" data-source="post: 8064639" data-attributes="member: 6777737"><p>Fiddly and unsatisfying is exactly how I'd describe it. It takes a lot of time to do and it doesn't accomplish much because racial abilities are often small potatoes.</p><p></p><p>In my experience these kind of point buy systems become about optimizing the features that work best for one class and then just hitting repeat over and over. People "give up" Elven sleep immunity for something like treating longswords as finesse weapons because how often does sleep immunity come up?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Along that same line, i'm certain that Mearls or Crawford gave an interview or an answer early on. The balance weight given to Darkvision was 0. It was assigned entirely based on what flavor made sense for the race, because in reality it's not difficult to just have a light source (i.e., it's a very overvalued ability) and Darkvision's penalty to Perception and lack of color is actually pretty debilitating if your DM is playing it right.</p><p></p><p>Ancestry is important, but I don't really want it to be a huge driver to the game or a major component of character development or progression.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bacon Bits, post: 8064639, member: 6777737"] Fiddly and unsatisfying is exactly how I'd describe it. It takes a lot of time to do and it doesn't accomplish much because racial abilities are often small potatoes. In my experience these kind of point buy systems become about optimizing the features that work best for one class and then just hitting repeat over and over. People "give up" Elven sleep immunity for something like treating longswords as finesse weapons because how often does sleep immunity come up? Along that same line, i'm certain that Mearls or Crawford gave an interview or an answer early on. The balance weight given to Darkvision was 0. It was assigned entirely based on what flavor made sense for the race, because in reality it's not difficult to just have a light source (i.e., it's a very overvalued ability) and Darkvision's penalty to Perception and lack of color is actually pretty debilitating if your DM is playing it right. Ancestry is important, but I don't really want it to be a huge driver to the game or a major component of character development or progression. [/QUOTE]
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