![]() ![]() You're very much misunderstand what I wrote, which is: the quick builds you think exist for the races actually don't exist. The problem is with people who insist that nothing, not even divine intervention, can allow a nontypical member of a race or who claim that players who want to put a +2 in a stat other than their racial stat are somehow not as good at roleplaying as players who don't, but that making a player play a race they don't want to just to get that +2 bonus us somehow not minmaxing. And your existing books are not suddenly going to be rewritten to exclude all that previously-written information. Look, there's nothing wrong with a sidebar saying "historically, people gave thri-kreen +2 Con," even though the idea of healthy thri-kreen could be just as easily explained in a less-clumsy way in the flavor text. In the game I'm running, there's actually both a (mostly cheery) halfling arcane trickster and an orc barbarian (who is actually more sweet than brutal), and they're both great characters. ![]() Which means that these stats are not actually at all helpful. You may be imagining cheery halfling thief or arcane trickster and brutal orc berserker as the "typical" build, but a murderous halfling long death monk and kind-hearted orc devotion paladin in shining armor are equally typical going purely by racial stats. ![]() Instead, you tend to think of an elf druid, ranger, or wizard-even though their actual ASIs only tangentially support those builds. What actually guides you are the tropes in your head, which is why most people think halfling rogue and not elf rogue, even though elves are just as Dexterous as halflings are and wood elves are even batter at hiding than halflings are. In neither case does the stat bonus actually guide you to what class to play. Orcs get +2 to Strength, but that can benefit them as any martial, a monk, many types of cleric, or even a frontline hexblade warlock. Halflings get +2 to Dex, which makes them equally good at being rogues, monks, or any sort of martial that chooses to rely on ranged or versatile weapons. ![]()
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