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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8183071" data-attributes="member: 7006">What amuses me the most about seeing you post this (and I give you props for it) is that this is exactly what you should be doing... deciding that what is in the books are not sufficient for your personal needs and coming up with your own alternate method.  Which is exactly what everybody else should be doing as well.Despite some other poster's protestations... WotC's books going forward do not actually have to include a secondary listing of a "default" choice of where the +2/+1 lies for those that feel like they need it (in addition to the new decision of choose any ability scores for them)... because they, as their own thinking DM, can just decide when setting up their next campaign to choose which ability scores get them for themselves and tell the players this is how it will be for this upcoming game.This once again highlights something I've been trying to get across to everybody for years now... which is that the entire game is optional-- trying to insist on playing "Rules As Written" is unnecessary and a waste of time-- and none of you get brownie points or a pat on the back or a Good Job! from ANYONE if you try and do so.  Nobody cares if you play RAW or don't play RAW.  You are striving for some ideal that that only matters to yourself in this bizarre narrative you have written about how you should play D&D.  But it doesn't matter.  It never has.  So by extension... getting so up in arms with WotC that they keep making new rules that will "force" you to NOT play RAW just so you can play the game with the rules you want is ridiculous.Oh darn... you're going to have to tell your players that in this next campaign that if they want to play a Hexborn, that lineage gets a +2 CON / +1 CHA... despite the fact that in the written pages it says put them wherever your want.  You've decide that for this upcoming game, it's CON/CHA.And there you go.  That's all you need to do.  You get what you want, and you didn't need WotC to "write it down for you".  Because WotC realizes just the like a lot of the rest of us that they don't need to write all these little micro-rules down because there's absolutely no reason to waste the ink when you as a player of D&D are meant to do this on your own if you really think it that important to your enjoyment of the game.  So do it.  And then have fun.</blockquote>

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