Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Is the new racial attribute system optional?

I really wish the new system was optional (heck its a controversial optional system from Tashas, so it shouldnt be anymore than that in BG 3 at best, if you ask me), as it is, it seems they have exchanged the system from PHB (the only proper sytem imo), for the highly controversial one from Tashas..

Really hope Larian come to their senses on this one. I love Larian, and I love BG3, been waiting for 4 years bursting with anticipation, but this implementation of Tashas system, and scrapping the original one from the PHB, is a big big mistake.

As I said, the Tasha system should be optional at best, nothing more.

Racial ability bonuses are a large part of what sets the D&D races apart. If you want to min max then choose a race that fits, or make an optional system, dont destroy the original one.
And thats half the fun to choose a d&D race with a class if you want to min max, or if your like me and want to play the unorthodox mashup most of the time. I do that half the time with D&D tabletop, its even more fun to do the non optimized choice sometimes.

Your also nerfing Dwarves and Humans and half elves (I believe, never played the latter, the two former loads of times though). Heck half the mechanical deal to choose humans is for the +1 to all, at the cost of Darkvision and other cool traits. Ive often played humans in tabletop, with this change Ill never play it in BG 3. nor will I play any race that I cant mirror the ability score modifiers of the PHB. Its partially ocd on my part, but I really want to play those races as well down the line.
I really dislike it when developers (looking at you wotc first and foremost) make changes to a great existing systems, in order to hold the hands of new players hand in general.

At least make Racial ability score bonuses (the original system you had from PHB) an option, as it is youve soured quite a few D&D players opinion.

PS: As a sidenote please add deity choice for Paladins, they NEED and SHOULD have one, its a freaking nobrainer. Not having one, makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. All you need do is add same system for cleric and copy it to Paladin, with possibly none as an option judging by a minority on all the Paladin/deity threads Ive seen here. That would please everybody on that subject.