TheSword
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Your first and second sentence literally cancel each other. If everyone can put +2 to strength then it indeed is not easier to make strong orc!
Well any other race is using their floating +2 to do so, while the Orc has still got theirs so yes it easier for them. It costs them less, is probably a better expression than easier. A floating bonus is worth more than a fixed bonus.
The floating ASIs already do that. And if you're gonna have four ability points that go above point buy that you can put pretty much wherever, then it is just more elegant to increase the point buy to allow buying those points directly.
One of those +2’s is fixed. Just increasing points buy destroys all stat difference between race, rather than reducing it to a manageable level
If you increase the cap and add extra points enough to raise a stat to 17 you are making characters more powerful because of the scaling nature of points buy. You’re giving +4 to two stats below 13.Yes, of course you would need to increase the cap. But it doesn't make characters more powerful as those extra point buy point just replace ASIs
I don’t think this is quite true. I can be a very charismatic elf under this suggested system and yet still be much faster than a typical human.As long as 'not being excluded' is understood to mean 'everyone can have equally high main stat' these two wishes are literally incompatible. That's my point, you can't have both.
An orc could be as intelligent as the most intelligent 1st level elf. But it couldn’t also be as fast. It could be as strong, and even the least strong Orc will still be as strong as an average elf.
You see, with this system you can preserve racial differences and yet they can have an equally high main stat.