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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JEB" data-source="post: 8197715" data-attributes="member: 10148">I'm sorry if you felt that was an attack on your position. The intent was to guide you towards sympathy for a playstyle you didn't seem to have much empathy for.So you believe the sidebar should exist! I'm glad to hear it. That honestly wasn't clear before.I hope Wizards cares more about that question than you do! It's going to be an important one, since there are plenty of people who play human characters, and their "no defaults" niche won't be enough anymore.This particular friend never plays human characters; I think he probably thinks they're kind of boring. (Though other players in the group don't have that problem.) If he did play a human, I would guess it was because he had a character in mind that was focused on class or maybe background, so he'd be relying on those to guide his decision-making instead of factoring in character race or defying archetypes. (Which I expect many players to do for all races, if floating is the default but no "quick build" is provided. They'll just move on to the next easy, default expectation available.)I should also point out that the variant human isn't the standard human; it's clearly designed for players who desire a greater degree of control over character design. Players who aren't interested in that don't choose the variant human. But now, to some degree, all races are variant human. Maybe that'll be an eye-opener for some players, but others may just see it as extra work...If it was just lineages like the dhampir etc. where this applied, that'd be fine, since these are clearly unusual. But ALL character races from this point forward will be like that, per the UA. My friend will either have to be satisfied with the old character options, or do extra work to play the later ones. Unless, of course, they include defaults as well. Hence my advocacy.1) That assumes the DM and the other players have any better ideas about where the +2 should go than this person does. Some folks just use things right out of the book without deep consideration about where a character race fits into the world; in some cases, they may even let the tail wag the dog, and build the setting around the character races their players choose. This is why defaults are useful.2) Couldn't the same argument be made about the quick builds for classes? And yet, Wizards provides that guidance. (I can attest that it's been helpful, too.)Wait, what? Setting upper limits is one thing, lower limits is a bit strange...</blockquote>

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