Roles are about things that you and things that you don't do, therefore roles are about restrictions. Therefore restrictions are good for roleplay. Playing a role with more restrictions successfully is good roleplay. In fact, not only are roles about restrictions, they are defined by restrictions. For example, a healer who does not heal, is not a healer. In fact a a healer to be a healer he MUST heal. Therefore he is restrivted in that dimension, making him what he is. Soo your assertion is patently false, and the exact opposite is true.
Originally Posted by Grimjoww08
TLDR; Stop denying other people more ways to play that have no bearing on your game
And yet the changes you want would deny us playing the game the way we want to play it. Curious.
Originally Posted by Grimjoww08
If a more diverse world encouraged by lack of racial stat punishment doesnt add more spice to roleplay than rigidly being a slave to it, I vehemently disagree. The one Orc who forsook his culture/family and desperately searched for a wizard willing to teach him to become a proper mage is far more interesting than the 100th Orc Barbian weve seen bonking things in between ugga boogas.
But you see, conflicts of interest and conflicts arising from circumstance and birth do in fact, add spice to roleplay. That one orc forsaking his culture and family to learn wizardry will be a lot more interesting character BECAUSE of the struggles that he is going through, including his internal struggles and his slower development and more humble abilities, when compared to an elf. And yes, I think it's perfectly okay that elves can be better at magic at the end of the day, despite all the struggles of that orc mage. That's another internal struggle to come to terms with that can be SUPER INTERESTING. (Why do anything if I can't be the best). All of these are exciting opportunities for roleplay that we just couldn't have if all the races could just have the exact same stats (they largely have the same stats anyways, we're literally talking about a +1 modifier at most).
