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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aco175" data-source="post: 8062021" data-attributes="member: 27385">I would make sure that everything is looked at through 5e.  Breaking down how many longswords there should be and having cool abilities for each is good, but when the DM says you find a +1 longsword we need to be able to handle it.  Maybe some sort of subsets of weapons like longsword where under it is all the variants and the DM can pick one or just tell the player to pick the one he wants.  Same thing with languages and such.  As the DM, I may make a dwarven temple with runes that dwarfs can read, but when the player tells me that his dwarf was raised in an elven land and cannot read them makes the game less somehow.  Makes me think the PC was created more for min/maxing so he could get the elf language and create a mage dwarf for using the elf high magic and dwarf toughness feats we are talking about for individual characters.  I'm not against allowing each PC to have specific abilities, but they just need to be looked at for backwards compatibility.</blockquote>