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<blockquote data-quote="Ibixat" data-source="post: 4540528" data-attributes="member: 71416">OK, so you understand why giving oversized weapons is bad. You make that clear.Then you indicate that 3.5 often poorly handled the exceptions it was so happy to give out so that it could have the anything goes attitude.And you consider a system designed to handle the races who are made to conform to a certain standard as a problem?Making races &quot;standard&quot; and interchangeable does not mean that one can't be better than another, at certain things.&nbsp; Oversized weapon and str/con makes them better at every other race possible, in too many ways.If you don't like the design philosophy of 4, keep playing 3.5 really.&nbsp; Play the powerbroken savage species characters who are all far better than anything in any core book before them.&nbsp; This is the effect they are trying to avoid in 4, where every time we release a race we all but invalidate the previous ones.If everyone in the campaign was playing a savage species race that's fine, the power level balances out more or less, but if everyone is playing them and one lone guy is playing a dwarf or halfling they are going to be so outclassed in most ways.&nbsp; 4E makes it so that every race remains a viable choice, and you pick based on what you want to play to have fun, not what you should play to be effective.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ibixat, post: 4540528, member: 71416"] OK, so you understand why giving oversized weapons is bad. You make that clear. Then you indicate that 3.5 often poorly handled the exceptions it was so happy to give out so that it could have the anything goes attitude. And you consider a system designed to handle the races who are made to conform to a certain standard as a problem? Making races "standard" and interchangeable does not mean that one can't be better than another, at certain things. Oversized weapon and str/con makes them better at every other race possible, in too many ways. If you don't like the design philosophy of 4, keep playing 3.5 really. Play the powerbroken savage species characters who are all far better than anything in any core book before them. This is the effect they are trying to avoid in 4, where every time we release a race we all but invalidate the previous ones. If everyone in the campaign was playing a savage species race that's fine, the power level balances out more or less, but if everyone is playing them and one lone guy is playing a dwarf or halfling they are going to be so outclassed in most ways. 4E makes it so that every race remains a viable choice, and you pick based on what you want to play to have fun, not what you should play to be effective. [/QUOTE]

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