Revised Races
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Races in 3.5 have a lot of problems. Balance is the most obvious one; from an optimization perspective, the vast majority of races are pretty much unusable because they're just so completely outclassed by a select few (one of which is in the PHB itself: human). There are also some lesser issues as well, such as the fact that many races are extremely cluttered with situational bonuses (like +1 to attack vs kobolds) that rarely come up and are just a waste of time for players to remember (if they even bother trying). | Races in 3.5 have a lot of problems. Balance is the most obvious one; from an optimization perspective, the vast majority of races are pretty much unusable because they're just so completely outclassed by a select few (one of which is in the PHB itself: human). There are also some lesser issues as well, such as the fact that many races are extremely cluttered with situational bonuses (like +1 to attack vs kobolds) that rarely come up and are just a waste of time for players to remember (if they even bother trying). | ||
| - | This fix is my attempt to expand the usable list of races by bringing every race up in power level so that they're roughly on the same level with each other. A secondary goal is to make all of your racial abilities matter at all levels. For some abilities, this involves changing an ability so that it scales as you grow in levels. Other times, as with most of those clutter abilities that don't really affect most characters (like the aforementioned +1 attack vs kobolds), I just removed the old ability entirely. Hopefully the result is a balanced list of interesting races that increase character options and are diverse enough to be noticeably different. | + | This fix is my attempt to expand the usable list of races by bringing every race up in power level so that they're roughly on the same level with each other. A secondary goal is to make all of your racial abilities matter at all levels. For some abilities, this involves changing an ability so that it scales as you grow in levels. Other times, as with most of those clutter abilities that don't really affect most characters (like the aforementioned +1 attack vs kobolds), I just removed the old ability entirely. Hopefully the result is a balanced list of interesting races that increase character options and are diverse enough to be noticeably different from each other. |
