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<blockquote data-quote="ReshiIRE" data-source="post: 8382454" data-attributes="member: 7031231">It's not, depending on the Warlock, party size and your defensive cabilities vs certain enemies.A Warlock is gonna get hit at some point. Having two less AC (the same amount as a shield), plus less chance to survive on a common saving throw, plus less iniuative (which is sometimes important) and having less HP* really makes a difference to survivability. You can play more glass canon, but the 5% difference until late game won't matter as much as the combined 20% difference in scores for Dex and Con.What you are suggesting may encourage more diverse builds initially, but I suspect that would not last super long. It also creates a problem for some classes in designating a 'primary' stat. Consider Fighters. Do you make both Strength and Dexterity primary stats? If so, I think you make it so that Fighters end up in this weird position where they're going either going to have to end up weirdly splitting their Strength and Dexterity modifiers and ending up as adaptable but further hamstringed in effectiveness compared to spell-casters, or end up with a lot of +1s for skills that they may easily get outshined in, or that they'll be quite clever and pick up Eldritch Knight, which I feel is the subclass that worsk the best here.I don't think your idea quite shakes out without significantly more changes to ability scores.* At level 3, the second Warlock has a level up's worth of more HP than the first one (assuming the average and without HP roles). At low levels especially that could make a significant difference.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ReshiIRE, post: 8382454, member: 7031231"] It's not, depending on the Warlock, party size and your defensive cabilities vs certain enemies. A Warlock is gonna get hit at some point. Having two less AC (the same amount as a shield), plus less chance to survive on a common saving throw, plus less iniuative (which is sometimes important) and having less HP* really makes a difference to survivability. You can play more glass canon, but the 5% difference until late game won't matter as much as the combined 20% difference in scores for Dex and Con. What you are suggesting may encourage more diverse builds initially, but I suspect that would not last super long. It also creates a problem for some classes in designating a 'primary' stat. Consider Fighters. Do you make both Strength and Dexterity primary stats? If so, I think you make it so that Fighters end up in this weird position where they're going either going to have to end up weirdly splitting their Strength and Dexterity modifiers and ending up as adaptable but further hamstringed in effectiveness compared to spell-casters, or end up with a lot of +1s for skills that they may easily get outshined in, or that they'll be quite clever and pick up Eldritch Knight, which I feel is the subclass that worsk the best here. I don't think your idea quite shakes out without significantly more changes to ability scores. * At level 3, the second Warlock has a level up's worth of more HP than the first one (assuming the average and without HP roles). At low levels especially that could make a significant difference. [/QUOTE]

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