Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Please consider removing racial Ability Score Increases!

Nah... As you can just reduce the strenght of your orc to 5, it's pretty much *proven* you only care about minmaxing. There is literally no other explanation. With a DM, you can negotiate reducing that strenght even more. In a video game, we can't consider an edge case of edge case of an edge case... that 5 will have to be enough.

As for you getting 2, and maybe an extra 2 points for that exceptionally low strenght... Yeah, I take offense to that. That makes not only no sense, but negative sense. If your character has a disability, I'm going to hold you accountable to actually roleplay the consequences of it. The full consequences of being disabled. Not "hidden superpower" special.

A friendly DM might give you a +1 to int. Your orc is not getting smarter than Gale just because he's got a disability affecting his muscles. There's suspension of disbelief and it dies just about here.

Back to races and stats. Elves are more agile than humans. They just are. In the same way even the weakest grizzly is gonna be stronger than all but the 0.000001% of human muscle bound freaks. Lol Or the leopard is gonna be faster. Or the monkey a better climber..etc., etc. Different species are different because they are different species. It's that simple. Why does the real world need to taint fantasy. I get it, racism is bad. If you hate someone in the real world because they look differently than you you are scum. But , let's keep that sort of bias to the real world. And, humans are humans. Dwarves, elves, and half orcs are not humans. Let's not pretend that they are.