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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8736690" data-attributes="member: 6790260">A rather jaundiced view of the situation. Particularly because if everything is "human+” including actual humans...doesn't that just reset where the baseline is? It sounds to me like you are passing off a normative argument ("races should always be weak and have few powers, it is wrong that 5e is not written this way") as a much easier-to-defend descriptive one ("these options are imbalanced and need to be brought back into balance in order to fit with the game.")I also find it curious that you invoke power gaming and other balance-related concepts. Are you of the opinion that 5e is supposed to be a pretty strongly balanced game? That's not generally what I have understood 5e fans to think.It is very nearly impossible for us to imagine truly, totally alien races, let alone roleplay them. This should not surprise you. People want characters they can relate to and enjoy. That means there will be many points in common with humanity, because the players are human. Your desire for "truly alien/inhuman" options is, frankly, silly; you are asking for things that most people will not want to play. Why would WotC make things most people definitely won't want to play?This is either outright false, or correct and a very good thing, depending on what you mean by it.If what you mean is, "it is literally impossible to develop cultures in 5e D&D now," then you are straight-up wrong, and I suspect arguing in bad faith. It is in fact easier to do this sort of thing, because we are not chained to the notion that culture and race must be precisely equivalent; we can have polyracial cultures and polycultural races, which is more grounded, provides greater freedom for world building, and enables a wider variety of characters than before, without removing anything whatsoever. We can have Carrot Ironfoundersson, the six-foot-plus "dwarf" who is secretly the human heir to the throne of Ankh-Morpork. Or the elf who was raised in a traditional Remnant Arkhosia enclave, carrying on the proud traditions of Lost Arkhosia. Etc., etc.Of course, what you could be meaning is "we can't rely on the crutch of racial monocultures and monoracial cultures." In which case, you are 100% correct. This is a very good thing, as already outlined.Why not? I genuinely don't understand the argument you're making here.Ah yes, because dragon breath is definitely something everyone can do. Come on, at least TRY to make an argument that isn't a CR -1 Straw Golem.You have demonstrated nothing of the kind other than by assertion. Back up that assertion, if you would please. Show how this is the case. Show how choosing hill dwarf or dragonborn makes you "useless" as a Wizard or how being a halfling makes you "useless" as a Barbarian.Because otherwise you're just using hyperbole and proof by assertion here.</blockquote>

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