I'm a new player, i've only been playing for about a month and i'm loving it. I DM for a group of friends and occasionally co DM with my fiance. When I was making my character I really loved the idea of playing a certain race but their stats sucked for the class I wanted which was a bummer because i'm very much a min-maxer. You can criticise me if you want and say "you're playing dnd wrong" but I enjoy seeing big numbers and frankly I'm sure everyone can agree at least somewhat.
With the new update, i'm noticing the perhaps abusable new feature, the origin manager. Some races are completely fine, just more flexible like any of the ones with a +2. Say shifter for example, maybe you love their theme and abilities but their stat increases don't do it for you, well now you can change that. But the human specifically seems unbelievably strong. +6 in any stat you want just because you picked human? I think that's giving variant human a run for their money for ban worthyness. I'm not an experienced player so maybe i'm just speaking on initial reaction, but if someone was to be uninterested on the social interaction, purely combat focussed player, why would they not just pick human and put all their ASI into their class' respective damage increase stat?
Per the rules, you can't stack your ability score improvements so a human can't get +6 in anything (or +5, +4, +3 or even +2). This is written in the text of the rules, it's just that currently the character builder doesn't enforce that restriction.
Per the rules, you can't stack your ability score improvements so a human can't get +6 in anything (or +5, +4, +3 or even +2). This is written in the text of the rules, it's just that currently the character builder doesn't enforce that restriction.
First, there's nothing wrong about playing as a min-maxer, it's not (any longer) really my style these days, but if that is the style that your table and yourself enjoy, al the better to you.
Now, I'm not a specialist about this, but I thought that you could redistribute the bonuses to other stats, but not add them onto one given stat ? "If you gain more than one increase, you can’t apply those increases to the same ability score, and you can’t increase a score above 20."
For me, this means basically that it does not apply to standard humans, because their increases are already distributed along all the stats.
Ooooh okay, that would make a lot more sense. My monkey brain saw something that looked ridiculous so I didn't really read much on it. Thanks for the clarification guys
So when it comes to other races that add +2 +1 could I take both of those into say +3 strength or can I only change 1 to be strength? For example what if I'm a goliath so I already have +2 strength and +1 con, could I make the +1 also strength or is that not intended?
you cannot stack the ASI. if you have a +2/+1, you only ever have a +2/+1. There is no stacking. period. as Davyd already explained.
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So when it comes to other races that add +2 +1 could I take both of those into say +3 strength or can I only change 1 to be strength? For example what if I'm a goliath so I already have +2 strength and +1 con, could I make the +1 also strength or is that not intended?
You cannot double up on bonus, and min/maxing is ok in my book, I mean would you go into a dungeon and face those dangers if you were not at your absolute best that you could be I mean characters die in those places and someone might not drag your body out to get you back from the case of death you caught lol.
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I'm a new player, i've only been playing for about a month and i'm loving it. I DM for a group of friends and occasionally co DM with my fiance. When I was making my character I really loved the idea of playing a certain race but their stats sucked for the class I wanted which was a bummer because i'm very much a min-maxer. You can criticise me if you want and say "you're playing dnd wrong" but I enjoy seeing big numbers and frankly I'm sure everyone can agree at least somewhat.
With the new update, i'm noticing the perhaps abusable new feature, the origin manager. Some races are completely fine, just more flexible like any of the ones with a +2. Say shifter for example, maybe you love their theme and abilities but their stat increases don't do it for you, well now you can change that. But the human specifically seems unbelievably strong. +6 in any stat you want just because you picked human? I think that's giving variant human a run for their money for ban worthyness. I'm not an experienced player so maybe i'm just speaking on initial reaction, but if someone was to be uninterested on the social interaction, purely combat focussed player, why would they not just pick human and put all their ASI into their class' respective damage increase stat?
I think it’s a bug in the system.
Per the rules, you can't stack your ability score improvements so a human can't get +6 in anything (or +5, +4, +3 or even +2). This is written in the text of the rules, it's just that currently the character builder doesn't enforce that restriction.
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That’s how I read it too, it a glitch on DDB that you can assign the stats wherever you like including stacking them
It wouldn’t be too bad on standard human to be able to redistribute but only to the +2 limit of other races though
Ooooh okay, that would make a lot more sense. My monkey brain saw something that looked ridiculous so I didn't really read much on it. Thanks for the clarification guys
So when it comes to other races that add +2 +1 could I take both of those into say +3 strength or can I only change 1 to be strength? For example what if I'm a goliath so I already have +2 strength and +1 con, could I make the +1 also strength or is that not intended?
you cannot stack the ASI. if you have a +2/+1, you only ever have a +2/+1. There is no stacking. period. as Davyd already explained.
Formerly Devan Avalon.
Trying to get your physical content on Beyond is like going to Microsoft and saying "I have a physical Playstation disk, give me a digital Xbox version!"
You cannot double up on bonus, and min/maxing is ok in my book, I mean would you go into a dungeon and face those dangers if you were not at your absolute best that you could be I mean characters die in those places and someone might not drag your body out to get you back from the case of death you caught lol.