This hit the nail on the head. Racial stat bonuses were never a thing anyone cared about. It’s the easiest thing in the world to change if a DM’s setting calle

This hit the nail on the head. Racial stat bonuses were never a thing anyone cared about. It’s the easiest thing in the world to change if a DM’s setting called for really smart orcs, or strong lumbering elves. Spending so much time thinking about the political implications of racial bonuses in a game where the DM gets final say anyway is just some sort of advertising. We’re talking about it on the front page of HN after all.