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<blockquote data-quote="Angellis_ater" data-source="post: 5209134" data-attributes="member: 37442">Hiya! Nice to see some responses to all of this.Now since I've been DMing 4th Edition since it was released, I am very well versed in understanding how the Abilities aren't everything and how some race/class combinations can still be effective, especially adding in how certain feats interact with the classes. However, the basic premise of the posts are just that - what if the ability scores defined the roles of the races in the setting. Thus, the above assessments.Also, an assessment which looks at the 2300+ feats and interacts those feats with the race/class combinations, or just adding in Hybrids into the mix, would make things insanely complex. I choose to keep things just a little bit sane <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I can agree with the fact that some choices/suggestions are very subjective - as someone mentioned a &quot;Bear Shaman Dwarf&quot; might very well be a conservative Ancestor Shaman more than a &quot;nature/woodsy&quot; type. However, that Wisdom bonus does tend to style the Dwarves as far more mystical than they are portrayed in general &quot;fluff&quot;.@Sharkon: No, I refer to the class &quot;Assassin&quot; as portrayed in Dragon Magazine.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Angellis_ater, post: 5209134, member: 37442"] Hiya! Nice to see some responses to all of this. Now since I've been DMing 4th Edition since it was released, I am very well versed in understanding how the Abilities aren't everything and how some race/class combinations can still be effective, especially adding in how certain feats interact with the classes. However, the basic premise of the posts are just that - what if the ability scores defined the roles of the races in the setting. Thus, the above assessments. Also, an assessment which looks at the 2300+ feats and interacts those feats with the race/class combinations, or just adding in Hybrids into the mix, would make things insanely complex. I choose to keep things just a little bit sane :) I can agree with the fact that some choices/suggestions are very subjective - as someone mentioned a "Bear Shaman Dwarf" might very well be a conservative Ancestor Shaman more than a "nature/woodsy" type. However, that Wisdom bonus does tend to style the Dwarves as far more mystical than they are portrayed in general "fluff". @Sharkon: No, I refer to the class "Assassin" as portrayed in Dragon Magazine. [/QUOTE]

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