[5E] Ability Score Increase Choice

[DungeonNoir]

The Half-Elf allows you to choose which ability score to increase:

"Your Charisma score increases by 2, and two other ability scores of your choice increase by 1."

What wording would I use to narrow that down to just two ability scores, rather than the full list?

For example, I want "Your Dexterity score increases by 2, and either Intelligence or Wisdom increase by 1."

[Zacchaeus]

I don't think there is such wording. See this video (https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?36611-Video-tutorial-Races) for further information. Basically you can repeat the wording on any of the races you find in the PHB, SCAGPG or Volo's Guide and those should all work. I don't think any of them have a line which gives a choice of such a narrow band of abilities. Your best bet would be to create a new race giving the Charisma +2 and then create two subraces one giving +1 to intelligence and the other +1 to Wisdom.

[DungeonNoir]

Thank you for your response. I love your videos, it's what got me started into customizing FG for myself and also got me into minor XML editing. I have a completely unrelated question, I wonder if I should post it here rather than starting a new thread?

As far as Player Handbook links organizing races by alphabetical order:

<racelists>
<byletter>
<description type="string">Races</description>
<groups>
<typeletterC>
<description type="string">C</description>
<index>
<changeling>
<link type="windowreference">
<class>reference_race</class>
<recordname>reference.racedata.changeling@Players Handbook</recordname>
</link>
</changeling>
</index>

What would you put for categories rather than letters? For example instead of A, B, C...I'd want Common Races, Uncommon Races, Rare Races.

[Zacchaeus]

I'm not an expert on the coding side but I think that section of code is simply putting things in alphabetical order. Not sure if you can sub category such things in the way you would want.

[DungeonNoir]

Thanks again, I'll poke around some.