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<blockquote data-quote="Cap'n Kobold" data-source="post: 8213827" data-attributes="member: 6802951"><p>If there is no issue with a halfling being blessed with divine strength at first level, why would there be an issue with a farmer knowing some different tricks? If cantrips are cultural, then it means that in that world, anyone can learn magic, so they're probably pretty widespread.</p><p></p><p>(I mean there is also the sheer power issues; that three cantrips and a martial weapon of choice are <em>way</em> more powerful than what a culture should grant. - But arguing over relative costs of abilities is something that can be done once the thematics and base assumptions can be addressed.)</p><p></p><p></p><p>No. Absolutely not.</p><p>ASIs for a race or culture indicate a general shift in the average of the entire population remember. Similar to the way for example, people in northern Europe are on average slightly taller than people in east Asia. - It doesn't mean they're all taller, or that "you can't get tall people from east Asia", just that the bell curve is shifted slightly.</p><p>But while height is not a problematic attribute, D&D ability scores are.</p><p>Unless cultures are simply based on massively monolithic racial lines, you're going to have multiple human cultures, and some of those are going to be applicable to real life human cultures. Thus assigning ASIs to them should be avoided at all costs.</p><p></p><p>Remember from earlier in this thread the point that training and learning for ability scores are easily represented by simply assigning a higher number to that score.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cap'n Kobold, post: 8213827, member: 6802951"] If there is no issue with a halfling being blessed with divine strength at first level, why would there be an issue with a farmer knowing some different tricks? If cantrips are cultural, then it means that in that world, anyone can learn magic, so they're probably pretty widespread. (I mean there is also the sheer power issues; that three cantrips and a martial weapon of choice are [I]way[/I] more powerful than what a culture should grant. - But arguing over relative costs of abilities is something that can be done once the thematics and base assumptions can be addressed.) No. Absolutely not. ASIs for a race or culture indicate a general shift in the average of the entire population remember. Similar to the way for example, people in northern Europe are on average slightly taller than people in east Asia. - It doesn't mean they're all taller, or that "you can't get tall people from east Asia", just that the bell curve is shifted slightly. But while height is not a problematic attribute, D&D ability scores are. Unless cultures are simply based on massively monolithic racial lines, you're going to have multiple human cultures, and some of those are going to be applicable to real life human cultures. Thus assigning ASIs to them should be avoided at all costs. Remember from earlier in this thread the point that training and learning for ability scores are easily represented by simply assigning a higher number to that score. [/QUOTE]
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