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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8421161" data-attributes="member: 6779196">I don’t think that erases the benefit of genericising sizes at all. There’s no harm in different races having different average heights and weights written in the book, but by keeping them in those tables instead of in the PC race entries, it helps emphasize the fact (which has always been true) that your PC doesn’t have to conform to the average for their race. Your individual character can be exceptional among their people. It’s exactly the same philosophy behind changing monster stat blocks to say “typically [alignment].” It’s always been the case that you can make individual monsters exceptions to the typical alignment for that type of monster, but this simple change in presentation helps make that fact clearer.RE: Small characters being able to be as tall as Medium ones, I think this is really a non-issue. I can’t imagine anyone who actually wants to play a Small character choosing to be more than like 4’, maybe 4’6” tops, unless they’re just being deliberately contrarian. This is a problem that only exists in the heads of people who are actively trying to poke holes.I’d be surprised if the anniversary PHB doesn’t have about as much information on each race in it as the current PHB does. But, I do expect that information will either focus primarily on non-cultural information (because race is not culture), heavily emphasize that it’s talking in generalities and your character isn’t beholden to them, or some combination of both.Probably true. I could maybe see Backgrounds getting a bit of a boost to compensate, but more likely I expect to see more designs like the new elf trance proficiencies.Standard human gets +1 to all ability scores, so there’s no problem because it doesn’t shoehorn them into any particular subset of classes. Variant human I imagine will lose the bonus proficiency and language and get the same floating +2/+1 or +1/+1/+1 as everyone else plus a Feat.Yeah, I mean this will be very much a matter of doing whatever “feels about right.” However, as with big races not having enough to make them stand out, this isn’t actually new, it’s just more obvious now.You know, I would not be the least bit surprised if those defaults are in the anniversary edition monster manual. Doesn’t the current monster manual have a table for applying race features to NPCs? That seems like the best place for “default” racial ASIs to me.</blockquote>

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