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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 9363179" data-attributes="member: 6877472">Simply put, as a DM, you have to make the setting reflect that, and let the PC's do what PC's do.  If they really want to be a smart Orc Wizard, fantastic.  Orcs need Wizards the same way Klingons need scientists- but make sure they realize that they'll get the same amount of respect as a Klingon scientist.Adventurers are typically your oddballs, misfits, idealist, free thinkers, and renegades.  That the rules allow you to actually be these things is a benefit, I feel.Don't get me wrong, I have very mixed feelings about getting rid of racial ASI's- I want to support creativity, and I've always hated entire species being pigeonholed into a particular role, but at the same time, it is weird to have Goliaths who aren't stronger than other races on average.In my current game, I told the players that we'll be using the racial ASI's, but if you really want to vary them, I can give you +1 to three ability scores instead.  No one took me up on that, sadly, because, as usual, their lineage choices sat at the intersection of "cool abilities" and "advantages that line up with my class".  Le sigh.</blockquote>