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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nichwee" data-source="post: 4991092" data-attributes="member: 84242">Changing Racial Mods to be any two stats is insanely unbalanced.You will simply lead to the Racial choice being "What Racial Ability fits best?". A Fighter that wants to mark loads? Go Dragonborn for the Minor Action Blast and put Stats into Str&Con.It just makes the decisions about being even more munchkined and optimised as the Stat Bonuses are no longer a "Pluses/Minuses" issue. So you just go "What effects help me best, and I'll take the Stats I want regardless." Atm getting a racial ability costs you fixed Stat Bonuses. So your Fighter say to himself "I want Elven Precision. But Dex/Wis aren't much use, how about Minor Action Second Wind with Con/Wis?" and has to think about it. Your version would be "I want Elven Precision, no downside."Also from a RP point of view the Stat Bonuses don't insist that those be high stats (I have an Eladrin with crap Dex - I just put my dump stat in Dex and got it from 'Can't catch' to 'Can't catch much'). The Stat Bonuses are the natural trend of the species - a slightly clumsy Elf is still not clumsy by human standards as they are innately gracefull - a weak half-orc is still reasonably strong by human standards.</blockquote>