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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IanB" data-source="post: 5537868" data-attributes="member: 1473">I answered the middle one, but only because it would be my second choice after VERY LIMITED TO NO racial support.Basically I would prefer if racial support was baked entirely into the choice of race itself, and didn't have a big effect on character choices going forward from there. I feel too much race-specific support tends to make humans end up very rarely someone's first choice for race, and I'd like my games to skew towards something vaguely resembling the assumptions baked into nearly all campaign settings that humans are the dominant race population-wise. In other words:Too much racial support = too many powerful-and-tempting builds that require a specific race instead of working across a number of them = everyone is a tiefling (or whatever.)While I realize the answer to that may very well be 'well humans would get support too' my opinion is that the racial support for humans always feels kind of lame and unflavorful to me (not underpowered, just boring.) Because we *are* humans it always feels strange to see special powers assigned to humans just for being human, you know? Humans get a lot of RRRGH NEVER GIVE UP sort of stuff but I see humans give up all the time. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Also these sorts of powers are more in the 'generally useful' category than the 'pushes you to a specific combo/build' category so they don't get as much consideration.You could always bake in some of the racial-power-affecting feats into the powers themselves so people don't have to fret about not being able to play those up as part of the character concept, too; for example, you could have dragonborn breath just go to blast 5 at a certain level, etc. This is the sort of thing I have the least problem with, feats and such that make your halfling dodge or your elf reroll or whatever work better are generic enough to be OK I think.</blockquote>

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