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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5701295" data-attributes="member: 2067">It's too much to ask for from a race, but I'd like D&D in general to not care so much about size. This probably means ditching (or at least loosening) the grid, but man, the things that the game could gain if it just didn't matter if you were 2 feet tall or 20 feet tall are so great that I think it would be WELL EFFING WORTH IT. Besides:It's good advice, I guess it's just a shame combat doesn't follow it very well. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />IMXP, this depends on the player more so than anything else. Some folks will grok the rules stuff pretty quickly, others will grok it well enough to play the thing, others will no doubt feel a desire to house rule the heck out of it, and some will, no matter how many times they try, never quite understand how these different sizes and sharing spaces and things work. Personally, I just think it's odd that a race with such a clear existing archetype is hit with such a rules brick. But given the design of 4e combat (and thus 4e powers and thus 90% of the 4e game), they didn't have much of a choice. If they wanted to make a tiny flying character, they must effectively remove most of the tiny and most of the flying, or else it would be A Problem For The Game.But, hey, I'm generally a Big Fan Of Weirdness, and this race fits the bill. And I'm fond of how adding "vampire" to everything is basically instant humor these days. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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