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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreenTengu" data-source="post: 8047385" data-attributes="member: 6777454">Let's look at this in a very comparable situation.Let's say a low level character receives a +1 magic version of whatever weapon they are already using. How many players upon receiving that would say "oh? You said it was red? My favorite color is blue. I throw it away." and what would generally be thought of a player who did that?Because the concept that you seem utterly incapable of grasping is that the situation you are trying to describe as a "shrug your shoulders, personal preference-- it all works out" is not just the equivalent of throwing away a magical weapon because its the wrong color-- oh, it is so much worse than that.Because throwing away that magic +1 weapon just means you are at a -1 to hit and -1 to damage while wielding that one particular weapon that could conceivably be knocked out of the character's hand or broken or replaced with an even better one.No-- it is taking a permanent -1 to hit. -1 to damage, -1 to all major skills, and -1 to virtually all class abilities permanently, forever, throughout the entire lifetime of the character with no possible remedy or chance to make up for. And you get... what? Proficiencies the class already grants you? Or, worse, ones for weapon/armor that your attacks or AC would be lower if you used? That is nothing. A bonus in a complete dump stat that the character could go their entire career without ever making a roll using? Yeah-- nothing.Expending ASI instead of taking a feat is never going to make up for that-- its just going to put one even further behind the version of them that chose to take a race that got the attribute bonus for the associated class.Seriously, dude, I can tell you are desperately grasping at straws to try to justify something that you are totally used to and that the very concept of change scares you to your core-- but everything you just listed is just completely stupid.As long as everything associated by a class is completely dictated by a single attribute bonus, choosing a race that does not maximize your score in that single attribute bonus is absolutely less respectable and more self-sabotaging than throwing away a +1 weapon because the DM described it as being a color that doesn't fit your character's color scheme.</blockquote>

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