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<blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 7374832" data-attributes="member: 6775031"><p>The lack of data is, itself, useful data. Not as useful as the data we were looking for, but it's something.</p><p></p><p>Part of me wonders if this is why they didn't bother with things like stat penalties in this edition. I mean, if nobody is ever going to build a halfling with Strength 20, because the Dexterity bonus is enough to ensure that every halfling builds for Dexterity instead of Strength, then giving them a -2 penalty would be pointless and redundant.</p><p></p><p>That means, one potential side-effect of incorporating something like the suggestion in the OP would be to encourage elves and halflings to build for Strength rather than Dex. Attempting to fix the problem of Strength being an inferior combat stat, could very easily create the worse problem of super-strong halflings, which is not currently an issue because they have no reason to build that way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Crimson Binome, post: 7374832, member: 6775031"] The lack of data is, itself, useful data. Not as useful as the data we were looking for, but it's something. Part of me wonders if this is why they didn't bother with things like stat penalties in this edition. I mean, if nobody is ever going to build a halfling with Strength 20, because the Dexterity bonus is enough to ensure that every halfling builds for Dexterity instead of Strength, then giving them a -2 penalty would be pointless and redundant. That means, one potential side-effect of incorporating something like the suggestion in the OP would be to encourage elves and halflings to build for Strength rather than Dex. Attempting to fix the problem of Strength being an inferior combat stat, could very easily create the worse problem of super-strong halflings, which is not currently an issue because they have no reason to build that way. [/QUOTE]
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