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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tormyr" data-source="post: 6390790" data-attributes="member: 6776887">One nice thing that works well with keeping the ability scores as is, is when you are building a non standard human character in point buy where your primary ability score for the class is not the one you get a +1 in.  You can set up your primary/secondary ability scores as 15/15 or 17/15 or 15/17 depending on which ability score bonuses you get.  You can then split your ability score increase at level 4 to make that a 16/16 or 18/16 or 16/18 and get two modifier bumps and catch up to the other players.Yes, this is a bit convoluted, but we have a few players at our table who did this.  A halfing rogue/monk started with 17 Dex/15 wis; a Dragonborn wizard started with 15 Dex/15 Int.  If the ability scores were reworked to just be the bonus, this granularity would be lost.And some things should stay with tradition if the alternative does not make them significantly better.</blockquote>