Many magic items are race or class locked in 5e. There is nothing new about that.
How about reading your own link? Cant't be bothered? They list exactly 2 racial weapons, dwarven thrower and the sentient moonblades. Those things are incredibly rare and high level, outside of what BG3 offers.
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Originally Posted by Ixal
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Originally Posted by Takamori
Just give the variant human instead of polearm proficiency and carry weight? The person is not even trying with these fixes.
We know there will be racial locked items ... Someone probably had to pick weapon fitting for humans, and decided that as they have it, it would feel more "typicaly humanish" if they would be naturaly proficient with it.
Unless its some artifact level magic item (its Larian, so most likely it is....) it does not make sense that a human can hold a stick, but a half-elf can not. Racial items are just another of Larians bad ideas.
Racial and background specific weapons have been around in pathfinder and dnd for decades. I don't know if there are any official 5e ones, but let's not blame Larian for every single fantasy ttrpg trope out there.
Items, including racial ones like gnomish hook hammers and others like it, were never race locked, just exotic for others. The only magic items limited to a race were very rare high level ones.
