As someone who wants to run dragonborn eldritch knight, I ain't complaining about these changes nah nah hahahahhaha. Does it make sense? Kind of floating racial stats is similar to Wotr, with their tags. I think it opens a lot of choices which I am more then thankful for. Know here comes my unpopular opinion, no one cares about half Orcs, and halflings and the stats prove it.
You are a minority of players, barely 8K of the 100K people remotely care about these races or play them. Larian making changes that make 90% of the most picked races more appealing is a big win. We should be thankful.
I have played in 10+ different d&D tabletop campaigns divided between about 6 groups at this point (in the past 10 years). In just about every one of them there was at least 1 hafling player. Half orcs a little less. I have played one 2 times, and they are great for roleplay and mechanics.
This change by Larian however (copy of controversial Tashas Cauldron supplement), does not affect Half orcs or Halflings though. Not in the way me and most ppl in this thread are in uproar about. Why? because we can still apply the ability scores of those races where they belong, seeing as their numbers havent changed.
The problem is for Dwarves, Humans and Half Elves, where we cant...
Best scenario: Larian have both systems working, being toggleable to please everyone (with the PHB version being defualt as it is in 5E). Revert to original system, Larian please!, and then add new one as an option if needed.
"They say he who smelt it dealt it." Sooo technically... this burnt corpse is your fault officer."
