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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wik" data-source="post: 6719993" data-attributes="member: 40177">Hey, I do what I can.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />But it's true.  Honestly, when you consider that the range between 20th and 1st in 5e is something like a +4 difference (plus ability mods), you realize that there's probably a huge disparity of "talent" amongst peoples with the exact same stat modifier.  An apprentice and a journeyman are probably only a +1 difference away anyways.  The game is now far less granular than it was in the 3e days, and the numbers are much smaller in the 3e/4e days.  Because of those two factors, it's totally conceivable to have two characters with the exact same ultimate modifier, and have one character say "I'm better at this than you are" and have it be "true" in the game's fiction.  Imagine you're playing your soldier, and I'm playing a human bard with an investigator/sherlock holmes vibe.  You have a perception score of +3 (+2 from prof, +1 from your wisdom of 12).  I have a perception of the same, from the same combinations (for some reason, I cant' get a higher wisdom for my character type).  However, you rarely stress your perception abilities, whereas I'm always stressing how I'm good at it, and using inspiration on perception rolls whenever possible.So, mechanically we're similar, but if someone ever novelises our game, you BET I'm going to be referred to as the perceptive one.  You can do the same thing with age.  You're the experienced soldier with a +5 to attacks at first level (+2 prof, +3 from STR), whereas I'm the green rookie with the exact same modifier.  There's absolutely no reason your character can't give my character tips ("wrap your sword with fabric soaked in pitch, boy.  It'll provide grip when things get wet and muddy... which is always, in war").  Unless I'm a terrible RPer, I'm not going to shoot back, "You're not the boss of me!  We have the same stat modifiers, and hit monsters with the same frequency!  Snort!"  Anyways.  My two cents.</blockquote>

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