Really, tell me someone, please ... what does it matter if you get rolled stats?
I would still like to know.
I mean i totally understand that racial bonuses are big deal when you are using point buy system and none of your stats can get abowe 15 ...
But if you are rolling, so you can potentialy get anything in between 3 and 18 ... why does it matter?
So your character will get bonus for some stat you dont need, well, that is a prize payed for playing atypical character, it still can be as effective with its main stats as you want ... up to 18.
Then why should a Tiefling, something that in lore is just a human with the physical characteristics of a devil and touched with magic, always get a +2 to Charisma?
Dunno ...
I never understand this stat bonus quite honestly ... bcs of Drows, the most hated race in all the world, the boogeyman not just for kids but parents aswell, the race that never bothers with any polite interactions with others, since they just enslave or kill you on sight ... gets bonus to Charisma aswell ... i cant really quite imagine how should i reason with it ... some people say that Drow have some kind of "exotic natural beauty" ... well that dont seems to be corect, since any beauty Drow have, other Elves have aswell, and Elves gets no bonus to Charisma as far as i know.
Every other stat have some reasoning behind it ... except Charisma.
Sometimes it seems to me a little like every race they (WotC) didt find any reason to have other stat bonuses, recedived Charisma as an compensation.
So why should a Tiefling get +2 to Charisma?
Why not ... they just do, deal with it.
Often times the stats in the PhB are due to the typical lifestyle of a race, like Tieflings needing charisma to talk their way out of the situations they end up in, but if they were not raised in that lifestyle why would they have those stat increases?
How often is "often"? And if its not "all the time" how can you tell from one example if that is following the rule or breaking it?
//Edit:
@Niara:
Nicely said, as usualy ... +1!
