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Look, I understand your PoV, but I'm not WotC. I'm taking D&D's "iconic" system and rewriting it so that it works better for my aesthetic preferences. They should have been doing this all along and it probably would be less of an issue now.

I think this is a matter of preference. My main issue with the existing attributes is that the granularity is arbitrary. If Str and Con are separate, why are Dex and Agi not? Personally, I like increased granularity in attributes because, to me, it makes character building more interesting. I...

I understand that the ability scores in D&D at this point are so iconic that people are afraid to touch them, but I've always felt dissatisfied with them. Here are my biggest complaints in a nutshell: 1. They aren't very well balanced. Some attributes (Dex, Con) are much more generally useful...

I don't really think that's a good enough reason to not iterate on the concepts. Besides, these are mostly additions rather than replacements. (i.e. saying someone has an 18 charisma would still apply)

I definitely think WotC dropped the ball in not updating attributes for 5e. They've never been particularly well handled. Here are my biggest complaints in a nutshell: 1. They aren't very well balanced. Some attributes (Dex, Con) are much more generally useful than others (Int, Cha). This is...

I don't think there's much denying that Int is too much of a dumpstat. It does have some useful skills tied to it, but they're all those type of skills where having one party member who's good at them helps everyone, and having multiple people be good at them is redundant and almost totally...