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<blockquote data-quote="Stormtower" data-source="post: 4535728" data-attributes="member: 43631">In your home games, I encourage you to ignore this (much needed IMO) balance fix at your leisure.&nbsp; That's the great thing about home campaigns, you can crank up the power level among friends who agree not to exploit the system too much.&nbsp; I personally think bugbear and minotaur PCs are cheesy (and I stand by my dislike of the 3.5 goliath), but I realize that's not everyone's opinion.However, I don't play 4E at my home table.&nbsp; I'm exclusively an RPGA DM for Living Forgotten Realms, and the RPGA - for all its good points - is home to many a hardcore optimizer who would take serious advantage of the broken math involving oversized weapons and the Brutal property.&nbsp; I'm glad WotC pushed this system fix out before an overabundance of oversized races became the norm in LFR.&nbsp; The extra damage is just too good to ignore for many players, and it disrupts game balance (see also the preponderance of eladrin and genasi, arguably the two most powerful PC races, but that's for another thread).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Stormtower, post: 4535728, member: 43631"] In your home games, I encourage you to ignore this (much needed IMO) balance fix at your leisure. That's the great thing about home campaigns, you can crank up the power level among friends who agree not to exploit the system too much. I personally think bugbear and minotaur PCs are cheesy (and I stand by my dislike of the 3.5 goliath), but I realize that's not everyone's opinion. However, I don't play 4E at my home table. I'm exclusively an RPGA DM for Living Forgotten Realms, and the RPGA - for all its good points - is home to many a hardcore optimizer who would take serious advantage of the broken math involving oversized weapons and the Brutal property. I'm glad WotC pushed this system fix out before an overabundance of oversized races became the norm in LFR. The extra damage is just too good to ignore for many players, and it disrupts game balance (see also the preponderance of eladrin and genasi, arguably the two most powerful PC races, but that's for another thread). [/QUOTE]

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