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<blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 525294" data-attributes="member: 8158">Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: ReThis is not germaine to the topic of the thread, but I do feel compelled to point out that it is a shaft to give a race ability score modifiers and racial features that do not &quot;synergize&quot; well with the race's favored class. Halflings make good rogues. Dwarves make good fighters. Specifically, giving a race a bonus to skills that are not class skills for the favored class is a shaft. To de-shaft, at the very lease WotC could make them de facto class skills for that race. Giving a race a penalty to an ability score that hurts the race's favored class in exchange for one that doesn't help the favored class is also a shaft. Forget for a moment the fact that a lower Con means even fewer hit points; a lower Con also means the one skill that is Con-based will suffer a penalty as well, and that happens to be the skill that the most vital to a wizard. How many Dex skills are on the wizard's class-skill list?You're right about the portal auto-search ability being inappropriate--inappropriate for a wizard anyway. They're the least likely candidates to play the role of scouts.I'll just assume that I don't need to go into a lengthy explanation as to why giving a wizard longsword proficiency is a lame idea...And don't even get me started on the 4-hour trance crap...&quot;Elves don't sleep, they just need to meditate for 4 hours. Of course, we can't have this being in any way beneficial to an elven arcane spellcaster, so we still require that they lay still like a lump of crap for 8 hours just like everyone else.&quot; Brilliant.You're correct in thinking that elves' posssess inappropriate racial features. You are incorrect to somehow interpret that as &quot;they're not shafted, they could actually stand a bit of nerfing.&quot; What they need is to be fixed, pure and simple. If nothing else, make their favored class ranger and be done with it, for all I care.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Felon, post: 525294, member: 8158"] [b]Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re[/b] This is not germaine to the topic of the thread, but I do feel compelled to point out that it [b]is[/b] a shaft to give a race ability score modifiers and racial features that do not "synergize" well with the race's favored class. Halflings make good rogues. Dwarves make good fighters. Specifically, giving a race a bonus to skills that are not class skills for the favored class is a shaft. To de-shaft, at the very lease WotC could make them de facto class skills for that race. Giving a race a penalty to an ability score that hurts the race's favored class in exchange for one that doesn't help the favored class is also a shaft. Forget for a moment the fact that a lower Con means even fewer hit points; a lower Con also means the one skill that is Con-based will suffer a penalty as well, and that happens to be the skill that the most vital to a wizard. How many Dex skills are on the wizard's class-skill list? You're right about the portal auto-search ability being inappropriate--inappropriate for a wizard anyway. They're the least likely candidates to play the role of scouts. I'll just assume that I don't need to go into a lengthy explanation as to why giving a wizard longsword proficiency is a lame idea... And don't even get me started on the 4-hour trance crap..."Elves don't sleep, they just need to meditate for 4 hours. Of course, we can't have this being in any way beneficial to an elven arcane spellcaster, so we still require that they lay still like a lump of crap for 8 hours just like everyone else." Brilliant. You're correct in thinking that elves' posssess inappropriate racial features. You are incorrect to somehow interpret that as "they're not shafted, they could actually stand a bit of nerfing." What they need is to be fixed, pure and simple. If nothing else, make their favored class ranger and be done with it, for all I care. [/QUOTE]

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