Originally Posted by N7Greenfire
Originally Posted by Volourn
The new asi makes races more the same abd interchangeable. Might as well erase all races. That's where we're headed. Gotta erase racial differences amongst fantasy races because of evil real life racists who can't see all humans in the real world are equal - an issue on all aides if the political spectrum.

Fantasy races should remain untainted by that kind of garbage.
Its more that a player can come up for the idea of a character, make them any race they want from an rp perspective, and have them still be viable. If anything it'll increase the number of different races you find at the table.

As we've already addressed the race asi's don't even make sense from a lore pov, it's purely a relic from old rules. And and D&D keeps chasing the mainstream audience old relics like this have got to go so new players can be be allowed to play what they wish.
Deciding that this time you're going to play a halfling from planet Krypton who is as strong as the strongest ever dragonborn is not solid roleplay, though. It's like deciding to write a novel and then figuring that your protagonist is Steven Seagal's perception of self. Who is going to take that character seriously? And why even have stats in the first place when you can just "RP" reasons to violate any rhyme and reason?

And as we've already addressed, the race ASI's make plenty of sense. They might not make sense to you but that's a rather different claim than that they don't make sense at all. Various bits and pieces of quantitative analysis doesn't make sense to me either, but obviously that's not the same as those details not making sense at all. You being able to make that distinction would certainly help improve the general level of this discourse.