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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arial Black" data-source="post: 8190568" data-attributes="member: 6799649">Here is the sequence of events:-The 5e PHB gives the information required to play each playable race. That information includes, but is not limited to, racial modifiers to ability scores.Later 5e products include new playable races, and the information required to play each race. Part of that information is the racial adjustment to ability scores.Later, WotC publishes Tasha's, which gives DMs another option. That option is to allow DMs to turn those set racial ability score bonuses into floating ability score bonuses.At this point, there is now a choice in the official published rules. Take the set bonuses, OR exchange them for floating bonuses.Now they publish a note saying that from now on new races will not have set bonuses, only floating bonuses.Now, for already published races, DMs have a choice: either use the set bonuses OR use the floating bonuses.But, and here's the problem, they strongly imply that they will not provide the set bonuses for new races. Now, DMs do NOT have the choice to use the set bonuses for new races.Choice removed.Those on the other side of this debate on this thread have frequently posted that 'moar choice' is the reason (or a reason) why they like the floating bonuses. So why are they anti-choice now?What's wrong with publishing future races with set ability score bonuses, while reminding DMs they have the option of turning them into floating bonuses? That would retain the choice for both sides.</blockquote>

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