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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8738963" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Why is +2 Dex, -1 Str, -1 Con more meaningful than Trance or casting spells without spell slots or being immune to sleep magic? This is a huge sticking point for me. This doesn't seem "meaningful" at all to me. If anything, it is utterly divorced from a meaningful identity. These dry numbers tell me nothing at all useful or interesting about the unique characteristics of a race. Dragon breath and celestial wings and somehow surviving crazy dangers and fighting on despite taking lethal wounds...these things are meaningful to me. +1 Intelligence? Who cares about that? A single half-feat erases that difference instantly. A tiny difference in rolled stats obviates that from the word "go." How is that more meaningful than these active, dynamic, unique abilities?Why is it good to hard-ban classes? How does that actually add to the identity of the dwarf? How is this more flavorful than having higher base HP or innately knowing shape and "seeing" everything around you in stone-carved locations? Surely it is better to make something like that setting-specific (especially with dwarves, who don't need any more reasons for people to choose not to play them, they're already rare enough as it is.)</blockquote>