D&D General How do you like your ASIs?

Yaarel · Nov 12, 2021

A creature that is fundamentally nonhuman, is also unplayable.

To the degree, a "race" behaves like a human behaves, it has free will and learns, and has culture.

Scribe · Nov 12, 2021

Yaarel said:
And yet these imaginary beings, have reallife tribes and shamans and speak languages, like reallife cultures.

And so on.

And?

That doesn't mean an Elf, is a representation of an ethnic group in reality.

It's a figment of imagination, made up to play a game or tell stories.

Maxperson · Nov 12, 2021

Yaarel said:
And yet these imaginary beings, have reallife tribes and shamans and speak languages, like reallife cultures.

And so on.

Where are the real-life orc, elf, dwarf,, centaur, gnome,, etc. tribes and shamans?

Scott Christian · Nov 12, 2021

Maxperson said:
Where are the real-life orc, elf, dwarf,, centaur, gnome,, etc. tribes and shamans?

C'mon. You knew this was coming.

Yaarel · Nov 12, 2021

Regarding the poll, I analyze the results as follows:

The issue divides the D&D community (or at least the ENWorld community). More players prefer race be nondeterminant.

CULTURE DETERMINES ABILITIES (49.5%)
• Floating ASI without restrictions. Votes: 20 (22.5%)
• No ASI. Votes: 24 (27.0%)

RACE DETERMINES ABILITIES (39.4%)
• Fixed ASI including possible negatives. Votes: 15 (16.9%)
• Fixed ASI without negatives. Votes: 3 (3.4%)
• Some fixed and some floating ASI. Votes: 12 (13.5%)
• Floating ASI with restrictions. Votes: 5 (5.6%)

Slit518 · Nov 12, 2021

I like my Ability Score Increases per character level and not Class level. I get why they do it, as an incentive to keep leveling up in the one Class.

Yaarel · Nov 12, 2021

Maxperson said:
Where are the real-life orc, elf, dwarf,, centaur, gnome,, etc. tribes and shamans?

To have "tribes" is a reallife human cultural feature.

Scribe · Nov 12, 2021

Yaarel said:
Regarding the poll, I analyze the results as follows:

The issue divides the D&D community. More players prefer race be nondeterminant.

CULTURE DETERMINES ABILITIES (49.5%)
• Floating ASI without restrictions. Votes: 20 (22.5%)
• No ASI Votes: 24 (27.0%)

RACE DETERMINES ABILITIES (39.4%)
• Fixed ASI including possible negatives. Votes: 15 (16.9%)
• Fixed ASI without negatives. Votes: 3 (3.4%)
• Some fixed and some floating ASI. Votes: 12 (13.5%)
• Floating ASI with restrictions. Votes: 5 (5.6%)

The poll says nothing about culture determining ASI, at all.

Yaarel · Nov 12, 2021

Scribe said:
The poll says nothing about culture determining ASI, at all.

I am treating a player character as "race (innate) + culture (learned)".

Language, proficiencies, background, class, and ability score improvements while leveling, are all "culture".

Minigiant · Nov 12, 2021

Maxperson said:
That has a pretty high chance of just making people unhappy. The fewer options you have, the more likely none of those options are going to appeal to the players.

How does that makes sense?

Having a few options means people are more likely to fine one they like if the designers are earnest about options.

I mean. It's harder to have mass appeal for long if you only have one option.

D&D General How do you like your ASIs?

What do you like to see in your character creation rules?

Fixed ASI including possible negatives.

Fixed ASI without negatives.

Floating ASI with restrictions.

Floating ASI without restrictions.

Some fixed and some floating ASI.

No ASI

Other (feel free to describe)

Yaarel

🇮🇱He-Mage

Scribe

Legend

Maxperson

Morkus from Orkus

Scott Christian

Hero

Yaarel

🇮🇱He-Mage

Slit518

Adventurer

Yaarel

🇮🇱He-Mage

Scribe

Legend

Yaarel

🇮🇱He-Mage

Minigiant

Legend

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