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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 8452535" data-attributes="member: 6799660">As others have said, Dexterity being universally useful makes a tortle a niche-best option, but doesn't change that it is now a solid option for lots of builds.Regardless, my overall take is that there were winners and losers amongst the player races before Tasha's, winners and losers amongst the player races after Tasha's, but there were changes in which ones hold what status. Despite what WotC says, that some races had attributes which didn't synergize well with each other (ex: Yuan-ti) or with the other racial abilities (Mountain Dwarves) was clearly part of the balancing mechanism.It's also worth noting that the other options in Tasha's also changes how this plays out. I find that Fey- and Shadow Touched feats are so good* for known-spell classes like Bard/Ranger/Sorcerer/Warlock, that that often takes precedence over things like an easy 17 AC.*simply because I am much less likely to find myself in a situation with plenty of spell slots, but no spells which would work in a given scenario.I think the Sidebar was a patch, and a reasonable one given the situation, but one that was clearly hamstrung by prior decisions. Whether the patch was necessary depends on how much one believes that not being able to play Race X and Class Y with a starting prime stat of 16 really was*, and I know reasonable people who disagree on the subject.*Or the socio-political implications thereof.</blockquote>

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