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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 7252664" data-attributes="member: 58172">Most frequently, players select a specific race-class combo as a specific type of character. The reason for a particular combination can include flavor, mechanics, the mechanics viewed as a kind of flavor (strong, smart, charming, etcetera), D&D tradition, pop culture inspiration, and so on.Certain players (heh, mostly character optimizers) prefer to decouple race from class, and describe freeform race mechanics as their ideal design.Yet all this describes is the Human race design. Pick whatever two abilities that one prefers for the optimization. Pick whatever feat sounds cool. And presto! Flavor it as any race that one wishes.There is zero need to change anything.Just make all races in the game − including any player invented races − use the same stats as the Human race. Done. And done.Why ruin the fun for the other players who appreciate coherent thematic races for their setting?For these players, the Halfling *should* be less strong on average, compared to other races. This ability tendency has implications for what classes would flourish most frequently within a Halfling culture.A set of holistic race-class types is an intuitive way to interact with an imaginary world. Such thematics helps build a coherent world with meaningful distinctiveness and diversity − that players can easily recognize and keep track of.So, peace. Feel free to use the Human race only. The rest of us can add in all the other races.</blockquote>

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