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<blockquote data-quote="Dungeoneer" data-source="post: 6330989" data-attributes="member: 91777"><p>A fair point! Actually, using the WIS score bothers me more than the CON score. CON I can justify as maybe just an innate ability to absorb a certain number of hits. WIS... well I suppose one could claim it's a monk-like ability to anticipate and avoid attacks?? </p><p></p><p>But at least the number of cases where a PC's AC <em>actually</em> depends on their WIS score is going to be small. In a sense two of the ability scores are there just to set a limit on the third. </p><p></p><p>I suppose you could claim that about using CHA as one the scores for HP too... I dunno, it's still too big of a mental leap for me though, somehow. CON sets your HP. That's what CON <em>does</em>. Any other bonuses it provides are sort of incidental to its central purpose.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Note it's quite a big bonus. You don't get bumped up just one dice size, but two! </p><p></p><p>The more I think about it the more I think I would like to house rule a similarly generous bonus for non DEX/CON builds. Of course I would need to define what that means. A simple rule of thumb would be "If neither DEX nor CON are one of your two highest ability scores you may take this bonus."</p><p></p><p>Then there's the question of the bonus itself. A boost to a derived stat seems like the obvious choice. But then we have the Druid offering increased damage dice. So it might be worth exploring other kinds of bonuses.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dungeoneer, post: 6330989, member: 91777"] A fair point! Actually, using the WIS score bothers me more than the CON score. CON I can justify as maybe just an innate ability to absorb a certain number of hits. WIS... well I suppose one could claim it's a monk-like ability to anticipate and avoid attacks?? But at least the number of cases where a PC's AC [I]actually[/I] depends on their WIS score is going to be small. In a sense two of the ability scores are there just to set a limit on the third. I suppose you could claim that about using CHA as one the scores for HP too... I dunno, it's still too big of a mental leap for me though, somehow. CON sets your HP. That's what CON [I]does[/I]. Any other bonuses it provides are sort of incidental to its central purpose. Note it's quite a big bonus. You don't get bumped up just one dice size, but two! The more I think about it the more I think I would like to house rule a similarly generous bonus for non DEX/CON builds. Of course I would need to define what that means. A simple rule of thumb would be "If neither DEX nor CON are one of your two highest ability scores you may take this bonus." Then there's the question of the bonus itself. A boost to a derived stat seems like the obvious choice. But then we have the Druid offering increased damage dice. So it might be worth exploring other kinds of bonuses. [/QUOTE]
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