But the reality is that with Variant Human the "normal" human is death on arrival.
I think the normal human needs a plain +2Stats for a useful Attribut modifier and a solid base for Multiclass in every direction.
A Shield dwarf Tank has +2Con +2Str ++ battlehammerprofiency , axeprofiency and Darkvision
A Human Tank +2Con +2Str but maybe better at Mulitclasses when a 3 Attribut comes into play or you use a Sword which negates the Shield dwarf Profiency bonus. But he has Darkvision...
I think thats balanced in a way.
Honestly, so what if the normal human is dead on arrival? It almost certainly is in pnp dnd. Compared to variant human its very niche in what it can do. Like some people said you can do very specific things with it but for every other other build variant human is just better.
And thats oke. For some builds races like elves are bare non the best. Or dwarves. If people want to pick those options they can do that. Almost all of the other PhB race options are in the game and some that arent in the PhB at all! So why not variant human?
Compared to alot of other races humans already get no darkvision, no racial spells, no resistances, no bonus proficienes, no better speed then 30 feet (looking at you wood elves), etc etc. Variant human was one of the only things going for players who wanted to play a human and now theyre robbed of that as well
+1 for variant humans. I would like to see rolling for skills but I feel it would just be us rerolling forever till we get the best build evar! (like in bg1 and bg2 incidentily) and I donno. It might take away from the game a little bit. That said, more options is always better. So +1 for rolling for stats as well!
