Originally Posted by mrfuji3
Originally Posted by TomReneth
"Playing against race" is really a more polite euphemism for playing a gimped character though. It might be interesting, but I really don't think that is enough justification for making some races worse at some classes / playstyles. Player freedom simply has to trumph in this consideration, as far as I am concerned. Racial flavor, as far as I am concerned, should be just that; flavor. Not mechanical advantages or disadvantages.
You're allowed to want that for your game and have that opinion about playing a gimped character. Not everyone does though.

And this is what I don't get. You are free to implement whatever restrictions on your characters you want in the system in Tasha's and One D&D. No one is stopping you from making all your elves +2 dex or whatnot. You can still play a gimpled character if you want to. Now the rules just doesn't make us homebrew a way around it for those who don't want to be gimpled for selecting a race/class combo outside of the stereotype. You haven't lost the ability to "play against race".


Don't you just hate it when people with dumb opinions have nice avatars?