Originally Posted by Edvin Black
I find it ridiculous that some people would complain that the huge muscular almost half-beast that are half-orcs have more natural physical strength than the tiny and civilized halflings.

Originally Posted by RagnarokCzD
Couner question for OP ...
It feels right to you that you can create a Gnome and a Half-Orc with almost same statistics? O_o

Just to be very clear, that is NOT what I see as a problem. These are extreme edge cases. I would also remind you that it's all too easy for a gnome and a half-orc to have nearly the same statistic in 5e as is, albeit at some penalty. 20 strength halflings haven't been a problem for anyone so far. They won't be either if they get a similar head start to half-orcs. Half-orcs have enough going for them to be tough melee powerhouses.

What I do mind is twofold: that there are many unreasonable class-race limitations forced upon us by the system and that it's achieved via ability scores (starting with a 15 feels very bad). These problems pertain to many, many cases which are far less extreme than the ones you name. This is what I was aiming at when I asked, is a halfling wizard less smart than a human? It was just a quick example of what I see as a reasonable but unsatisfying character build, I didn't mean for this to devolve into a competition where we pull out absurd extremes and ask "oh, so this is fine with you?" laugh