Rijacki wrote:
Bratface wrote:
Andok wrote:
Karnos@Nektulos wrote:
I think you will be seeing less, not more, diversity by forcing two stereotypical ability packages on every given race.
I, for one, don't see why, say, a high elf is condemned to being an inferior fighter than, for instance, a dwarf. There is certainly no lore support for it. The simple fact that most high elves player characters are mages or priests doesn't change that.
On the other hand, it would be just as unfair to shoehorn all the current high elf mages into a race equipped with the priest and fighter packages.
My point being, I don't think it is a good idea to force specific ability packages on all members of a given race. Let anyone pick abilities freely, I say, but only from two packages per character. Once you have picked abilities from two different packages, all other packages should be disabled for that character (at least until a respec).
My proposal would guarantee that people picked races based on what they considered interesting or otherwise appealing, not simply min/maxing of combat-relevant stats.
How is every race having the same abilities more interesting? I’m sorry, but that sounds very dull to me.
Actually gving everyone a choice of all choices provides for the most diversity, instead of having certain choices restricted to certain classes you can have any class with any choices, which means more differences between the races since no one will be forced to choose from a small palette of options.
With such an abundance of choices for everyone to choose from the chance of having duplicate choices is reduced. Unlike what we have now with some races always choosing the same options (Dark Elf comes to mind) making all racial choices pretty much the same for every race.
Having ALL options available to ALL races doesn't make them -racial- traits because they would have absolutely no relationship, and connection to the race. They would then be simply character traits.
My point was simply that more choices means more diversity, not less.
I never said I wanted them all opened to everyone (I don't care either way), I just said that doing so is not going to make everyone the same, it would be the opposite in fact, it would provide more ways for characters to be different.