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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lyxen" data-source="post: 8400017" data-attributes="member: 7032025">And what makes you think that we need one ? The way I see it, putting all potential racial abilities and stats into a large bag and shaking it will have potentially two results, probably both:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Increase optimisation, welcome back to 3e where optimisers will be happy making the most powerful combinations possible without the slightest story/culture reason.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Welcome to Bland and Boring, the new D&D where all the races look like a mish-mash of humans just with very slightly different features so that no one can feel offended.</li> </ul>To me, D&D has always been High Fantasy with bigger than life characters supported by bigger than life choices, not only because it looks cool but also to foster differences between characters so that  they can be complementary and work with each other as a team. Both of the results above go against this for reasons that are purely outside of the game.Thankfully, so far, they are only options, and I hope that if and when 6e comes it will be in a very, very long time and all the hate against fantasy for the wrong reasons will have gone away. Actually, I should rephrase that, it's not against Fantasy, Runequest in its latest editions still has very strong racial definitions probably much stronger than D&D actually, and no one bothers that game, so it's really against D&D, has always been actually.</blockquote>

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