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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stalker0" data-source="post: 8188218" data-attributes="member: 5889">The notion of the racial changes also stems from the debate on how much the PC making rules are also "assumed" to be the way regular people of the world are created.For example, in 3.5 everything was beholden to the system. Monsters, PCs, NPCs....everything cut from the same cloth, even to absurd terms. In 4e, almost completely divorced, to the point that some NPCs had abilities my players were super envious of. 5e seems to go into the middle, in general using similar rules as PCs but allowing for deviations (just because).If the rules very intentional separate PCs from the rest of the world, than I am fine with the notion that race doesn't really affect your PC ability scores. You want to play an Elf with an 8 dex, go for it, PCs are weird.But if the rules in any way inform the players that "humans and elves are just as dexterous as each other in the world"....that is where I would have a problem with removing the ability bumps and such.</blockquote>