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I would disagree, vehemently. Look at all the powergaming loopholes, feat taxes feats, deadend choices, munchkin wet dream feats, glaringly over powered combos, the errata necessary to play the game (4E), and outright errors that have "escaped" the "professionals." Yet, the players managed to...

In the Obsidian Portal videos for the seminars, you clearly hear one person (not Monte) talk about this, skills, ability scores, and ability bonuses. The section I'm thinking of starts around 16:00 on the skills and abilities seminar video.

As a librarian I'm rather partial to it myself. I understand the curve nature of the "take ability score" mechanic, what I'm saying is its wonky because we all know that it will feel wonky to get a small bonus from an apparently high ability score. As was said, going from a 100% success to a...

I want 5th ed to be a sleek, modern design that's reminiscent of earlier editions of the game, without being beholden to them. Take thaco and BAB as one example of a modern iteration of an old mechanic. It's mathematically identical in most places, but BAB and ascending AC are easier to use and...

That wouldn't be too bad, but then the trouble is when told that a tiny 5% increase in chance of success on a roll is also a drastic improvement for "Take 10" (2 ability score points), or whatever they're calling it in 5th. As a side note, the video of the skills and abilities seminar clearly...

It is clumsy. The only way to make this work without such a workaround is to change the ability bonuses to ability score - 10. I don't think anyone's leaked anything specific on ability scores or DCs from XP so there's no way of knowing. But, as you mentioned the math is off, for the math to...