Quote Originally Posted by Kurald Galain View Post
Since ribbons only rarely or never impact gameplay, why is it a problem to not have them? Nothing is stopping your dwarf from hating orcs if he doesn't get a +1 to hit against them.

More to the point, dwarves can now choose to pick a better ability instead of a ribbon, if they like. I fail to see how this is a problem.
They can't that I've seen; the dwarf feats are pretty much just the list of ribbon abilities from older editions.

But the reason it's eye-roll-worthy is that it's such a nerf of already-weak abilities. Instead of this list of features that weren't all that impressive, you now can have only one of them! And that makes you have more options, you see, because now you're making a choice between them.

Before, you could have a cable service that would give you three dozen channels! Now, however, for the same price, you can pick any one of those three dozen channels! Isn't this an improvement in customer choice? Wonderful, no?

Sure, those three dozen channels all showed boring stuff you probably wouldn't watch anyway, so you might not care that you get only one instead of all of them, but it's definitely not an improvement.