I'm using the motm fairy in the character builder, and I selected charisma for the fairy magic feature. After selecitng bard as a class, when I went back to the ancestry page charisma had been unselected, and no longer appears in the list of options, but the race doesn't say anything about not being able to use your primary spellcasting ability as your fairy magic ability. Is this a bug or a feature?
That's... very odd. I can replicate the bug with a test character: Start by removing all classes. Then go to Race, choose Fairy, and pick any spellcasting ability for Fairy Magic. Go to Class. Select any class. Go back to Race; the Fairy Magic now has a ! and the dropdown is missing the spellcasting ability you'd selected before. If you then go and remove the class, then Fairy Magic no longer has a ! and it's showing the spellcasting ability you'd selected.
It only seems to happen when you add a first class after selecting Fairy race and setting the Fairy Magic ability score. If you pick Fairy but don't select anything, go pick a first class, then go back to Race, you can select from all 3 ability scores for Fairy Magic.
Tested a couple other MotM races with spellcasting ability select - Firbolg and Fire Genasi - but they don't produce the error.
Very strange, and reproducible. Also happens if you pick any class, not just a spellcasting class! I’ve passed this along to the team, thank you for the thorough report.
this bug is still here, however if you just don't pick a spellcast stat through the feature then the your character sheet will calculate using your class spellcasting stat (charisma on my bard that cant pick charisma on the racial feature)
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I'm using the motm fairy in the character builder, and I selected charisma for the fairy magic feature. After selecitng bard as a class, when I went back to the ancestry page charisma had been unselected, and no longer appears in the list of options, but the race doesn't say anything about not being able to use your primary spellcasting ability as your fairy magic ability. Is this a bug or a feature?
This is the character sheet in question: https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/18902675
That's... very odd. I can replicate the bug with a test character: Start by removing all classes. Then go to Race, choose Fairy, and pick any spellcasting ability for Fairy Magic. Go to Class. Select any class. Go back to Race; the Fairy Magic now has a ! and the dropdown is missing the spellcasting ability you'd selected before. If you then go and remove the class, then Fairy Magic no longer has a ! and it's showing the spellcasting ability you'd selected.
It only seems to happen when you add a first class after selecting Fairy race and setting the Fairy Magic ability score. If you pick Fairy but don't select anything, go pick a first class, then go back to Race, you can select from all 3 ability scores for Fairy Magic.
Tested a couple other MotM races with spellcasting ability select - Firbolg and Fire Genasi - but they don't produce the error.
Helpful rewriter of Japanese->English translation and delver into software codebases (she/e/they)
Very strange, and reproducible. Also happens if you pick any class, not just a spellcasting class! I’ve passed this along to the team, thank you for the thorough report.
naruhoodie, Thank you for finding a temporary workaround.
Halfwing, thank you for passing it on to the team.
this bug is still here, however if you just don't pick a spellcast stat through the feature then the your character sheet will calculate using your class spellcasting stat (charisma on my bard that cant pick charisma on the racial feature)