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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 7876478" data-attributes="member: 6785785">There's a wizard in my current 5E campaign with an 8 Con. She's 12th level and has like 40 hp. She is the classic glass canon, and was very much designed to be that.Charisma is a very popular dump stat as long as the party has a Face of some kind. If there's someone else who can talk on everyone's behalf, then everyone else is free to dump CHA and bump up something else. We have a couple of low Charisma characters in the group with the glass cannon mentioned above. I've had their mere presence impact the party bard's ability to positively interact with NPCs. The bard is schmoozing some local lord....and the fighter is clumsily hitting on courtiers, and the ranger's picking his nose....and the lord is like "umm....I don't know if we have any work for a group of.....wanderers such as you".The. Horror. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />I really don't see the issue here. It's not like monks are overpowered because of their high Dexterity. If monks outpaced the damage output or defense of other classes or something, then I'd see the issue. But as it is, the way it works creates characters who are pretty evenly balanced. The fighter edges the monk in damage output a bit, and likely in HP total, but the monk makes up for it with other utility abilities. Pretty sure monk is still one of the least played classes.I base this on no scientific evidence whatsoever.</blockquote>

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