D&D (2024) Sacred Cows: Ability Scores
Helpful NPC Thom
Adventurer
No. Stop. If you slaughter all the sacred cows, you'll have an empty farm.
Bolares
Hero
you could also simplify it and roll a d4 or something. If you want to mantain 5e's progression cap you could do the 4 meaning you got a 0 or something like that.
| D4 | bonus |
| 1 | +1 |
| 2 | +2 |
| 3 | +3 |
| 4 | 0 |
Professor Murder
Hero
See, I gave up on rolling stats like decades ago. Rolling to determine stats is in essence rolling to determine class. I would rather as little of character creation as possible be behind RNG gates and leave random outcomes to actual gameplay to maintain a sense of tension and create a possibility of failure.
Professor Murder
Hero
Any aspect of the game that can be improved should be up for grabs. that said, changing too much at once and you get 4th ed.
Yaarel
He Mage
I like abilities because they mechanically actualize "aptitudes", things that a character generally tends to be good at.
Skills and class features are highly specific capabilities, and each minutia stands on its own, separately.
But abilities can invite themes and concepts.
Abilities need rethinking, such as consolidating to a more useful, sensible, and balanced four, rather than six.
But abilities as a cluster of things that a character is globally good at, is useful for both mechanics and narrative.
It did throw me a little when playing KoToR (which while not D&D based is very obviously based on 2nd or 3rd (can't tell which due to unfamilarity) DND) that it was the modifiers afterwards, not the scores themselves, that mattered, but afterwards I did find it an interesting system.
I think the system right now is fine, I don't mind the scores being less important rather than the modifiers and not influencing derived statistics. I think having stop gaps leads to interesting ways to build or approach characters and monsters. I do wish there the rules around ASIs were a little different to perhaps make it so that most feats also gave a +1 to encourage them more, but I'm overall fine with the current system.
I think the system right now is fine, I don't mind the scores being less important rather than the modifiers and not influencing derived statistics. I think having stop gaps leads to interesting ways to build or approach characters and monsters. I do wish there the rules around ASIs were a little different to perhaps make it so that most feats also gave a +1 to encourage them more, but I'm overall fine with the current system.
Bolares
Hero
yeah, I loved rolling stats, but with 5e I changed to point buy, and IMO it makes the game a whole lot smoother
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