FormerlyHemlock
Hero
If you want to compare my hits with my superior friends hits, it will depend on AC. But, if I have even chances to hit with each attack, I hit 5 times for every six that my superior friend hits. Maybe I am just an optimist, but that just doesn't seem like that big of a deal.
It's not. It primarily affects players who like to look at each other's character sheets and talk about how big their bonuses are. It's not something that has a large impact on play; the impact of stat variance on play is utterly dwarfed by the effects of player skill.
An Int 11 wizard leveraging Wall of Force and True Polymorph is orders of magnitude more useful than an Int 22(?) wizard casting Chromatic Orb IX. (Yes, I really saw that happen, over and over again. The pain of having to watch a putatively Int 20+(ish?) wizard behave like an Int 6 munchkin is one of the major factors that led me to quit that group.)