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<blockquote data-quote="Older Beholder" data-source="post: 8199181" data-attributes="member: 6813585"><p>Why couldn’t a Goliath have Con +2 and Str +1?</p><p>There‘s a lot of reasons racial based ASI’s don’t make sense and are just arbitrary restrictions for their own sake.</p><p></p><p>As for the high Str halfling, what if in my back story the character fell into a barrel of strength potion brewing as a baby?</p><p></p><p>What if my Fire Genasi from Thay wasn’t cut out to be a wizard and thus found a calling and became an arcana cleric instead? Why is it so hard to imagine having an extra +1 in wisdom instead of intelligence?</p><p>That extra +1 gives an extra spell as well so that after some healing, offence and defence spells I just wanted to pick something for flavour?</p><p></p><p>Having an extra +1 in your primary stat at first level can go a long way to making a character seem viable for a number of reasons.</p><p>What if you multi-class level for level? It’ll be 7 levels before you get to choose a stat increase again and you’ve got two primary abilities?</p><p></p><p>What if you’d rather take a feat later to add flavour (in the case of my Fire Genasi I took elemental adept for example)</p><p></p><p>I actually thought we would have seen floating become the norm much sooner given it was already in the PHB with half elves. I don’t really see them adding the old racial based mods as a sidebar going forward in the same way they didn’t have a sidebar in 3E about how to use THACO.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Older Beholder, post: 8199181, member: 6813585"] Why couldn’t a Goliath have Con +2 and Str +1? There‘s a lot of reasons racial based ASI’s don’t make sense and are just arbitrary restrictions for their own sake. As for the high Str halfling, what if in my back story the character fell into a barrel of strength potion brewing as a baby? What if my Fire Genasi from Thay wasn’t cut out to be a wizard and thus found a calling and became an arcana cleric instead? Why is it so hard to imagine having an extra +1 in wisdom instead of intelligence? That extra +1 gives an extra spell as well so that after some healing, offence and defence spells I just wanted to pick something for flavour? Having an extra +1 in your primary stat at first level can go a long way to making a character seem viable for a number of reasons. What if you multi-class level for level? It’ll be 7 levels before you get to choose a stat increase again and you’ve got two primary abilities? What if you’d rather take a feat later to add flavour (in the case of my Fire Genasi I took elemental adept for example) I actually thought we would have seen floating become the norm much sooner given it was already in the PHB with half elves. I don’t really see them adding the old racial based mods as a sidebar going forward in the same way they didn’t have a sidebar in 3E about how to use THACO. [/QUOTE]
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