There are already several races that dovetail beautifully with certain classes. +2 to stealth is good but no better then many other racial skill bonuses. The intimidate bonus on a creature who will have at best a mediocre Cha is a whatever.
The only reasons to even play them are the +2 to Str and Dex (great for fighters, rangers, and brutal scoundrels) & the over sized weapon thing. They don't have the equivalent to a +1 to hit while bloodied or even the elven wildstep ability. It is no fey step or dragon breath for sure.īugbears also have no other racial abilities. That means their encounter power is pretty bad. It is a d6 damage that takes a minor action to trigger and if you whiff it did nothing for the encounter. I played a minotaur fighter and the 1d12 on bastard sword was nice but not that nice. I don't think it will be as bad as you think. He's even worked up a backstory (A big plus towards getting me to accept it). What are your thoughts about Bugbears in particular and MM PC Races in general? Are they balanced enough to run in a party? I'm leaning very heavily towards saying "no" this time, but I want to make sure I'm not over-reacting because I really want to say "yes" if it is indeed a reasonable request. My understanding of statistics stops well short of regression testing. Apologies to Alex319 if that's not how that spreadsheet works.
Positive equals broken in PCs favor, negative equals broken against PCs favor. My basic understanding is that severe deviation from 0 in that spreadsheet indicated broken. Reading Alex319's thread on weapon balance has only confirmed this for me.Ĭhanging the bastard sword damage to 6.5 (1d12) on his excel spreadsheet makes it's residual 1.17, nearly 3x higher than the Great Axe. But I really think that bugbear is unbalanced as a PC race, especially as dual bastard sword wielding ranger. Normally, I am very permissive when it comes to DMing, because I feel it's more fun for everyone involved when the players feel like they have a say in what's going on. I have a player who wants to play a Bugbear Ranger.
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