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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8804458" data-attributes="member: 6915329">Free-floating. Level Up attaches them to background, +1 fixed, +1 floating. I've seen people say to attach them to class as well, which also makes sense. Wherever they choose to put the +2/+1, or, in Level Up what their background says.See all those traits that each race has? See how dwarfs get Dwarf Resilience and Stonecunning and elves get Fey Ancestry and Trance?Those things. Which actually are useful and interesting in play. If you have a 15 Dexterity, how often has it ever mattered whether you got it by rolling the dice/assigning points or because of your race. And how often has it actually mattered that you rolled a 15 but your teammate rolled a 13 and added 2 because of their race? You both have a 15 in the same stat. In the 30-odd years I've been gaming and the three editions I've played with, it hasn't mattered to me even once. Has it mattered to you?Of course, it barely matters unless everyone starts with the exact same stats and they're only different because of race. If one person is a dwarf with Dex 18 and another person is an elf with Dex 13 after the racial ASI, then it certainly seems silly to say that elves are more dexterous than dwarfs are.In D&D, variant humans get a skill and a feat. In D&DOne, they also get free Inspiration. In Level Up, humans get a skill, can add an expertise die to a roll 1/rest, and get to pick a human heritage gift.So, extraordinary. If ordinary people don't have that level of bravery/foolhardiness, then PCs are extraordinary because they do.Extraordinary =/= super-powered. Extraordinary = very unusual and special."Feel" smarter is not the same as having a +2 Intelligence.If you're in a room with a bunch of goblins, they are the baseline. It literally doesn't matter if these are the only goblins in the world and everyone else in existence is a human.Last I checked, all NASA scientists are human.</blockquote>

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