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<blockquote data-quote="Kurotowa" data-source="post: 8077140" data-attributes="member: 27957">Of course, the other side of the coin with the whole &quot;How viable are PCs without a racial ASI in their main stat?&quot; question is how is the DM running the game.Are you rolling for stats, especially if you're using something more generous than 4d6k3? Then those racial ASI may not matter nearly as much as when you're using the standard point buy. Does your DM like to throw softball encounters at the group to let them show off? That puts a lot less pressure on the players to optimize than a DM who's always shooting for &quot;challenging&quot; as a baseline and is willing to let the party lose a boss battle and run with it. Is your DM on the more generous side with powerful or personally tailored magical gear? Then a few weaknesses in base character stats are more easily evened out.We should all remember that there's no good universal baseline for the D&amp;D play experience.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kurotowa, post: 8077140, member: 27957"] Of course, the other side of the coin with the whole "How viable are PCs without a racial ASI in their main stat?" question is how is the DM running the game. Are you rolling for stats, especially if you're using something more generous than 4d6k3? Then those racial ASI may not matter nearly as much as when you're using the standard point buy. Does your DM like to throw softball encounters at the group to let them show off? That puts a lot less pressure on the players to optimize than a DM who's always shooting for "challenging" as a baseline and is willing to let the party lose a boss battle and run with it. Is your DM on the more generous side with powerful or personally tailored magical gear? Then a few weaknesses in base character stats are more easily evened out. We should all remember that there's no good universal baseline for the D&D play experience. [/QUOTE]

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