"Customizing your Origin in D&D"

[Boci]

It feels bad to face a mechanical penalty because of your roleplaying creativity. At that point, it's a lot easier to just give up and go "Yeah, I don't want to drag the party down, I guess I'll just play a (race more applicable to the class)..." because it's going to suck being behind everyone else in your party.

I'm not saying I don't get that, I don't think Iplay suboptimal class and race combinations that way either, I'm just saying that when it does happen, it is a specific example of the Stormwind Fallacy being wrong and optimization instincts negating roleplay.

I haven't played a particular character concept yet because I don't want to force a square peg into a round hole. I'd rather wait for the right peg.

But it wouldn't have been. Playing a cleric without a wisdom bonus is not a square peg in a round hole. You can play a perfectly functional cleric with 14 or 15 wisdom.