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<blockquote data-quote="marcelvdpol" data-source="post: 6944312" data-attributes="member: 6837387"><p>I agree that some abilities are in general more useful than others.</p><p></p><p>str vs dex: there are very few ways in which strength will trump dexterity. dexterity saves come up pretty often and a high initiative is most of the time better than a low initiative. only class that comes to mind is the Barbarian as it has abilities which specifically key of strength.</p><p></p><p>intelligence vs Wisdom. again, wisdom saves come up much more often compared to intelligence and wisdom has several very important skills attached to it such as perception and possibly survival. </p><p></p><p>one thing thas couldbe done is to make initiative depend on another ability, possibly depending on class. For example, the Barbarian initiative uses Charisma while the Fighter uses intelligence. Another is to force more saves of another type, but this is rather dm dependent at the moment and there are simply far more low level spells that target dex or wid saves. </p><p></p><p>I would definitely like a bit more balance in this; I liked 4th edition approach that defenses keyed off the "best" of a pair of abilities; so you could use strength in place of dexterity for a dexterity save and intelligence instead of wisdom for a wisdom save.</p><p></p><p>However, there isno getting around it: some abilities are in general more useful than others.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="marcelvdpol, post: 6944312, member: 6837387"] I agree that some abilities are in general more useful than others. str vs dex: there are very few ways in which strength will trump dexterity. dexterity saves come up pretty often and a high initiative is most of the time better than a low initiative. only class that comes to mind is the Barbarian as it has abilities which specifically key of strength. intelligence vs Wisdom. again, wisdom saves come up much more often compared to intelligence and wisdom has several very important skills attached to it such as perception and possibly survival. one thing thas couldbe done is to make initiative depend on another ability, possibly depending on class. For example, the Barbarian initiative uses Charisma while the Fighter uses intelligence. Another is to force more saves of another type, but this is rather dm dependent at the moment and there are simply far more low level spells that target dex or wid saves. I would definitely like a bit more balance in this; I liked 4th edition approach that defenses keyed off the "best" of a pair of abilities; so you could use strength in place of dexterity for a dexterity save and intelligence instead of wisdom for a wisdom save. However, there isno getting around it: some abilities are in general more useful than others. [/QUOTE]
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