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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8460088" data-attributes="member: 6915329">Because an ASI has no flavor whatsoever. It's just a bland mechanical bonus that once you add to your stat, you forget about it. No fun whatsoever. I don't look at any of my non-floating-ASI characters and say, wow, that +2 bonus is really cool.Also, the vast majority of feats, except for the racial feats from XGE, are designed to enhance your class, not your race. If I'm playing an elf, I want to play an elf, someone with fey ancestry and trance and and keen vision and the ability to hide behind a raindrop. I don't want to play a +2 and a class-based feat. If I wanted that, I'd play a Vhuman--which I've actually never played before. (Actually, I don't think that anyone at my table has ever played a human of any sort.) Because despite what you might want to think, people who are "optimizing" by putting a +2 in a different stat are not actually min/maxing or powergaming. They're just trying to be good in their class--which is absolutely no different than playing a race that gives +2 Strength as a fighter or paladin.</blockquote>