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<blockquote data-quote="Minigiant" data-source="post: 5978561" data-attributes="member: 63508"><p>Upgrade Uncapped</p><p></p><p>I believe that your ability scores should be able to increase or decrease but it shouldn't be automatic nor should it be hindered. But there should be threshold cost that a character must pay behold getting to certain scores... each with a hard diminishing return or limit. There isn't a hard cap but a soft cap that is nearly impossible or extremely expensive to overcome. </p><p></p><p>For example a character could get a +1 to a score from extensive training, but doing so bumps you up an age category (young to middle aged to old to venerable to dead dead forever dead you dead sucker!) AND you could only do it once per 5 levels.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: Another thing that included my choice is one (well two) of my beliefs.</p><p></p><p>"A high Strength human fighter should eventually be as strong as an ogre."</p><p></p><p>"An ogre is stronger than a normal human will be." </p><p></p><p>Basically a normal 1st level human anything with 18 strength (before racials) could never match an ogre's strength without a magical item or boon. But via training, experience, and/or magical items, that same human could one day match the gore's strength. That is why the low strength of the ogre and minotaur in the playtest annoys be so much.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Minigiant, post: 5978561, member: 63508"] Upgrade Uncapped I believe that your ability scores should be able to increase or decrease but it shouldn't be automatic nor should it be hindered. But there should be threshold cost that a character must pay behold getting to certain scores... each with a hard diminishing return or limit. There isn't a hard cap but a soft cap that is nearly impossible or extremely expensive to overcome. For example a character could get a +1 to a score from extensive training, but doing so bumps you up an age category (young to middle aged to old to venerable to dead dead forever dead you dead sucker!) AND you could only do it once per 5 levels. EDIT: Another thing that included my choice is one (well two) of my beliefs. "A high Strength human fighter should eventually be as strong as an ogre." "An ogre is stronger than a normal human will be." Basically a normal 1st level human anything with 18 strength (before racials) could never match an ogre's strength without a magical item or boon. But via training, experience, and/or magical items, that same human could one day match the gore's strength. That is why the low strength of the ogre and minotaur in the playtest annoys be so much. [/QUOTE]
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