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<blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 7186577" data-attributes="member: 6877472">Maybe not restricted, but when one of your key racial features is completely useless to anyone who isn't a melee combatant, it's not a good deal.&nbsp; It's really bad design- even Orc aggressiveness could find some use on a caster.&nbsp; When designing a race, you want to make sure that even unusual class choices can use the abilities of that race without feeling like it was a completely dumb choice- because even if nobody ever plays a Half-Orc Wizard, it still should make some kind of sense for there to be NPC Half-Orc Wizards.Far from my biggest peeve about Half-Orcs though.&nbsp; I still refuse to admit that &quot;I crit gud&quot; is a freaking racial trait.&nbsp; It makes no sense to me (please don't try to explain how it makes sense, my friends have already tried).If you're going to make a race that is predisposed towards certain classes, you should also throw a bone to other kinds of classes, because yes, there are Elf Barbarians and Dwarven Rangers in the world.&nbsp; Most of the 5e races are actually pretty good about this, because even if High Elves are terrible Barbarians (save for some oddball Dexbarian build), that free cantrip can really come in handy for the fights you don't want to (or can't) use rage for.&nbsp; Or maybe you use it for cool utility, that's not bad either.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James Gasik, post: 7186577, member: 6877472"] Maybe not restricted, but when one of your key racial features is completely useless to anyone who isn't a melee combatant, it's not a good deal. It's really bad design- even Orc aggressiveness could find some use on a caster. When designing a race, you want to make sure that even unusual class choices can use the abilities of that race without feeling like it was a completely dumb choice- because even if nobody ever plays a Half-Orc Wizard, it still should make some kind of sense for there to be NPC Half-Orc Wizards. Far from my biggest peeve about Half-Orcs though. I still refuse to admit that "I crit gud" is a freaking racial trait. It makes no sense to me (please don't try to explain how it makes sense, my friends have already tried). If you're going to make a race that is predisposed towards certain classes, you should also throw a bone to other kinds of classes, because yes, there are Elf Barbarians and Dwarven Rangers in the world. Most of the 5e races are actually pretty good about this, because even if High Elves are terrible Barbarians (save for some oddball Dexbarian build), that free cantrip can really come in handy for the fights you don't want to (or can't) use rage for. Or maybe you use it for cool utility, that's not bad either. [/QUOTE]

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