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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stoat" data-source="post: 5324377" data-attributes="member: 16786">We may be coming at the issue from different directions.  If I understand the term "social unity" in your post, it's something that I take for granted in the game.  In other words, if I'm playing in a game with a Mind Flayer, a Death Knight and a Hobbit, I assume the players of those PC's will find a way to justify why their characters are adventuring together.  I also assume that they won't spend all their time fighting amongst themselves.What I'm concerned about is the way that a character with an at-will area of effect attack that stuns enemies for 3d4 rounds can mulch an encounter, or the way that a character with the various immunities and vulnerabilities unique to creatures with the undead subtype interacts with run-of-the-mill foes from the Monster Manual.Perhaps its a question of game balance.  For the most part, the Monster Manuals present opponents who are geared to face PC elves, dwarves, tieflings, warforged, giff, etc. etc.  -- PC's with one or two base hit die, few supernatural abilities and defenses that are limited in a fairly strict way.  Allowing something like a Grey Ooze to be a PC horks things up to one degree or another.In other words, D&D handles the roleplaying aspect of "inhuman" characters Ok, but the mechanical aspect gets more and more dodgy the further you go from the baseline described in the PHB.</blockquote>