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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pauljathome" data-source="post: 5701469" data-attributes="member: 21807">Well, they maybe wasted the opportunity to create a balanced and reasonable pixie <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=":-)" />.While its probably not gamebreaking, the pixie is pretty clearly far superior to something like a halfling. Its faster, it can fly, it can hide in its companions squares, and it has absolutely no drawbacks whatsoever from being tiny.Even with the limitations the ability to fly is very significant, especially at lower levels. All sorts of terrain features can be just ignored.So it definitely represents a significant power gain over the small races.In world terms, it also makes little or no sense. All sorts of things stand out as essentially quite silly. A tiny creature's little sword and little shield are every bit as effective as the much larger equivalents its friends wield? It has to come back to within 5 feet of the ground every 6 seconds? While being no more dextrous and only slightly quicker than its 1/2 ling friend it has the same range with its tiny pointy stick as the 1/2 ling does with its much larger one? It is as strong as its human friend despite being 1/64 the weight?Yeah, yeah, I know. Its magic. Physics and reasonableness need not apply.I should add that one of my favourite characters was a windling in Earthdawn. Part of what made that character fun was that it PLAYED quite differently from a normal character. Its size constantly mattered. Sometimes it was an advantage, sometimes it was a disadvantage. Its flight was definitely a significant advantage, albeit one that came with drawbacks. Taking a windling warrior was NOT a good power gamers choice since, in that role, the disadvantages outweighed the advantages. It was still probably a viable character but it was definitely sub optimal.This pixie seems like the opposite to me. No tradeoffs, just benefits. For almost all purposes it really is NOT tiny, it plays as if it is small. Yeah, that makes things easier for WOTC.  But it loses a huge amount in the process.And I'll bet that this race becomes one of the main power gaming choices for all sorts of silly classes where a pixie really SHOULD SUCK. Or, at least, be significantly suboptimal.</blockquote>

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