Originally Posted by Zenith
Originally Posted by Imora DalSyn
Originally Posted by Madscientist
honestly, if you care about balance, the differences between races should be your least problem.

With classes, items and illithid powers everyone can become godlike powerful.
So even if we agree that dragonborn are the worst race, you can totally become a god as dragonborn and murder everything in your path.

DnD was never balanced to begin with and Larian made this worse with their choices of items, special powers and changes to DnD rules.

Yes, I know, however, the argument was that the human racials suck. The dragonborn ones arguably more.

I still have a bunch of dragonborn characters because I pick race based on looks, and I think they look badass. I never play humans, they're boring to me.


Both the dragonborn and human racials are supremely better than what tieflings get. Forest gnomes are also pretty mediocre compared to dragonborn and humans. Dragonborn's racial got fixed to scale with level and is a CON save spell, so any class of dragonborn can use it and it scales. Tiefling spells and High Elf/Drow racial spells are pretty damn worthless, and in the case of the tiefling and high elves, their spells are locked to CHA and INT respectively. At least high elves have other powerful racials, but tieflings do not.

It scales, but poorly. It's max 12 damage at lvl 6(my highest dragonborn), which isn't worth the action. She punches harder than that.

High elf cantrip I pick depending on what I'll use it for. I usually pick utility on something that'll have low into, like Light. Fire Bolt is taken if and only if I need to fight barrels on fire and I want something that can do it.

Not every racial has to be good for every class.