Originally Posted by neprostoman
Let me explain. You said that I should self-restrict myself to play as a sub-optimal character. Wanting to play that character implies that it is my idea of having fun. But DnD and BG3 (often) are played by several people at once. If there is a racial restriction of ASIs, than the attribute cap is same for everyone and racial balance is more rigid but fair. If those restrictions are removed, then the gap denoting the difference in the level of satisfaction from the game between players will grow. When we are playing tabletop, we can sort out the rules beforehand, so that everyone is happy. With a computer game this is not the case and we have to rely on inbuilt rule presets. The lease I think Larian should do is introduce customizable rules in that case.

I'm a bit confused by this. Don't you still have to arrange things beforehand with BG3? I didn't think folks could just drop in. I have no interest in multiplayer so I have no idea how it works, but you need to discuss time, scheduling and whatnot anyway so as far as I understand this isn't fundamentally different to scheduling a game of pen and paper d&d over say, zoom or video chat. If I'm wrong I'm happy to be corrected.