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<blockquote data-quote="Scott Christian" data-source="post: 8184830" data-attributes="member: 6901101"><p>They can't. It is impossible to make a race good at something, and then not have that lend itself to a class. That is the comical part of this entire debate. It is what I said earlier. Once ASI is no longer a problem , but then they make a new elf that has a clutch memory and can memorize spells with no spellbook, their will be a vocal group that wants that for their human or dragonborn or something else. Rinse and repeat. There are only so many dials. Only so many knobs. If they turn one, it automatically helps a class or group of classes more than others. </p><p></p><p>Here is the litmus test. Look at feats. Most feats could just as easily be explained as racial or cultural. How many of them help a specific class or class group more than others. The answer is almost all of them. </p><p></p><p>Such will be the same when one tries to make races unique by using tons of feats.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scott Christian, post: 8184830, member: 6901101"] They can't. It is impossible to make a race good at something, and then not have that lend itself to a class. That is the comical part of this entire debate. It is what I said earlier. Once ASI is no longer a problem , but then they make a new elf that has a clutch memory and can memorize spells with no spellbook, their will be a vocal group that wants that for their human or dragonborn or something else. Rinse and repeat. There are only so many dials. Only so many knobs. If they turn one, it automatically helps a class or group of classes more than others. Here is the litmus test. Look at feats. Most feats could just as easily be explained as racial or cultural. How many of them help a specific class or class group more than others. The answer is almost all of them. Such will be the same when one tries to make races unique by using tons of feats. [/QUOTE]
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