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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8182768" data-attributes="member: 6779196"><p>Yes.</p><p></p><p>Those are all cool, interesting differences. 5% accuracy is not cool or interesting.</p><p></p><p>Sometimes I’ll take a Feat at 4th level instead, but that’s a choice I make voluntarily, not one forced on me as an inevitable consequence of my race choice.</p><p></p><p>Not at all. The problem isn’t that some characters don’t get to 20 in their primary score before level 12, it’s that characters of some races can and characters of other races can’t, and in the mean time, the latter characters are stuck being a step behind the former.</p><p></p><p>Except most games never even get to level 12. Hypothetically being able to catch up to the rest of the party a month after the campaign has ended doesn’t make up for having been behind during the entire actual campaign. Even if the campaign does make it all the way to level 20, catching up more than half way through doesn’t make up for having been behind the other half.</p><p></p><p>All characters of the same class get the same hit points, so this analogy doesn’t work.</p><p></p><p>Great. Thanks for sharing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 8182768, member: 6779196"] Yes. Those are all cool, interesting differences. 5% accuracy is not cool or interesting. Sometimes I’ll take a Feat at 4th level instead, but that’s a choice I make voluntarily, not one forced on me as an inevitable consequence of my race choice. Not at all. The problem isn’t that some characters don’t get to 20 in their primary score before level 12, it’s that characters of some races can and characters of other races can’t, and in the mean time, the latter characters are stuck being a step behind the former. Except most games never even get to level 12. Hypothetically being able to catch up to the rest of the party a month after the campaign has ended doesn’t make up for having been behind during the entire actual campaign. Even if the campaign does make it all the way to level 20, catching up more than half way through doesn’t make up for having been behind the other half. All characters of the same class get the same hit points, so this analogy doesn’t work. Great. Thanks for sharing. [/QUOTE]
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