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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 984993" data-attributes="member: 5868">I'd note too that 2H weapons appear overpowered in direct proportion to the level of ability scores in a game.  While a natural strength of 20 at low levels is anticipated by the game system, it should be extremely rare -- never mind anything well beyond that.  Consider that at the stat ranges at which the game is designed and playtested (ie, 25-pt/default array characters), an 18 strength is about the expected limit up through 7th level: +6 for two-handed damage vs the +9 for a 22 Str starts to seem a pretty significant difference.  The further you get from the game's design point, the wider the variance in the mechanics -- and the more potentially unbalanced things may appear.I think Power Attack scales quite well with the range of ability scores (as some of the in-depth analysis has shown) -- but it certainly may not appear that way at first glance.</blockquote>