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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Akrasia" data-source="post: 2779939" data-attributes="member: 23012">The system is not perfect, as the example of strength best illustrates.  I think viewing the prime as 'training' works better for attributes like dexterity, intelligence, wisdom, and charisma.  It makes less sense with strength and constitution.  Despite this bug, though, it allows for some 'customization' of characters without skills and feats (e.g. a human fighter who chooses DEX and INT as his extra 'primes' will be quite different from a human fighter who chooses CON and CHA as his extra 'primes').  You could, to some extent, capture this variation by ability scores alone, but the bonus that a prime gives (+6) makes a huge difference in play.You could get rid of the system for ability checks, as you propose, but I would still keep it for saving throws, otherwise the PCs will be at a huge disadvantage relative to the monsters.  (I guess you could get rid of the prime system for monsters too, but then a 'mind-focused' creature like a mindflayer would have similar saves as a 'physical-focused' creature like an ogre.)</blockquote>