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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Twig" data-source="post: 8200066" data-attributes="member: 31754">To continue on this thread, because I enjoy discussing D&D and I no longer have anyone to talk to about it, so this board is all I have for now, I would like to explain that my view point comes from a simulationist perspective. Now I don't want an absolute simulation, but I want a semblance of it.For example, can a human punch through a steel plate? No! Of course not! At least, not without magic. A monk channeling Ki to punch through metal makes perfect sense! At least within the magical world of D&D it does. And there was an explanation given in somewhere that dragons can fly and giants can exist, despite the impossibility of them according to physics, because there is a "low-level pervasive magic" that is so universal that not even anti-magic zones effect them, that allows those creatures to exist the way they do. Great! I'll take it! That makes sense within the D&D world. Problem explained and solved enough to now ignore it.It is the same for racial/species ASIs. Half-Orcs are stonger than everyone else because of course they are! They are just naturally bigger and stronger. But other races can get to be just as strong, including tiny halfling and gnomes, because of low-level pervasive magic. Good enough for me. And honestly I would be even more happy if every <s>race</s> species (it is going to be hard to switch to species after 40 years of using race) had a -2 somewhere as well. I think it adds more interest and role-playing possibilities, but that is just IMHO and I may be in the minority on that. So no need to tell me I am "wrong" and that it "punishes" people. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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