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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 8633053" data-attributes="member: 1465">Well, the more flexible and powerful character creation rules become, the less relevant the specific race is, especially when the race itself has always been built around the concept of... being flexible.In theory, with expertise you hit the nail on the last remaining &quot;generic&quot; ability that can redeem the (mechanical) attractiveness of choosing human as your character race. Because expertise is indeed generic enough to stick with human's versatility concept, but is also uncommon enough so that it immediately creates a reason to choose human: only Rogues get it at 1st level, Bards at 3rd, and Ranger gets something similar under a different name and some limitations. If human loses its uniqueness of getting a feat at 1st level, it could regain it with expertise.However, if you allow Tasha, everybody can now also get expertise at 1st level by taking the Skill Expert feat. So in a single flick of the wrist (bonus feat to everyone at 1st level) they removed the only human unique advantage and prevented another.Maybe that Death Save proficiency is something to look forward, otherwise something even more dramatic. For example what about the possibility to re-train anything on your character sheet on a long rest? Or to recharge something once a day on a short rest instead of a long rest (like regaining a spell slot or a daily usage of something)?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 8633053, member: 1465"] Well, the more flexible and powerful character creation rules become, the less relevant the specific race is, especially when the race itself has always been built around the concept of... being flexible. In theory, with [B]expertise[/B] you hit the nail on the last remaining "generic" ability that can redeem the (mechanical) attractiveness of choosing human as your character race. Because expertise is indeed generic enough to stick with human's versatility concept, but is also uncommon enough so that it immediately creates a reason to choose human: only Rogues get it at 1st level, Bards at 3rd, and Ranger gets something similar under a different name and some limitations. If human loses its uniqueness of getting a [B]feat[/B] at 1st level, it could regain it with expertise. However, if you allow Tasha, everybody can now also get expertise at 1st level by taking the Skill Expert feat. So in a single flick of the wrist (bonus feat to everyone at 1st level) they removed the only human unique advantage and prevented another. Maybe that Death Save proficiency is something to look forward, otherwise something even more dramatic. For example what about the possibility to re-train anything on your character sheet on a long rest? Or to recharge something once a day on a short rest instead of a long rest (like regaining a spell slot or a daily usage of something)? [/QUOTE]

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