Originally Posted by
SpawnOfMorbo
Seems like a lot of effort to say "play my way or get out".
I think adventurers, heroes and villains, are assumed by the base game to be rare among most settings so having a player with a halfling that starts with a 16 or 18 Strength easily, fits right in with that idea.
It's not that every halfling can be that strong, but a PC halfling? Certainly.
Honestly, for years now, I've been thinking of just scrapping the idea of race/species and just letting it be a "pick X number of features, tell me what your race is".
Like, have three columns you get a racial feature from each of the columns so you can mix and match whatever you want.