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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8770967" data-attributes="member: 7006">No worries... I didn't think you were referring to me personally on your post.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />But to try and answer your question... seems to me that the game just wants to be simpler whenever possible.  And explaining how well you use a weapon based off of your STR or your DEX is the simplest option, because the reasoning for it makes logical sense.  But trying to do that explanation for all six ability scores and make them seem understandable and reasonable from a non-magical standpoint is more difficult.  Not impossible of course... just more difficult.So is it wrong that WotC chooses to go simpler in this case?  To not go deep into the weeds trying to explain how/why a character's force of personality or their intellect allows them to be a really good swordfighter even if they are a weakling and clumsy oaf?  Obviously it can be done... but it just needs more word-count and page space to do so.  So is that explanation and allowance to certain players to be able to "play what they want" worth the complexity and loss of space?  I think every designer and player will have a different opinion on the matter.I will say though that for me personally... if we really wanted to get across the idea that someone could be a quality swordfighter even if they were "weak" and "clumsy"... I think it'd be easier to just add an "Attack" ability score to the game.  One that just tells us who good of a weapon-user you are and isn't aligned to any of the other six ability scores at all.  That way you don't have to bother with trying to justify any explanations for using a different ability for your attacks... you can just be a good swordfighter regardless of what your ability scores are.That's what Mutants & Masterminds did originally I believe, and it seemed to be okay.  The only major result though was that I suspect every single combat character probably maxed out their attack and defense scores because why wouldn't they?  Which also is probably fine for most players... except for the few that thinks that sort of standardization is "boring".  But so be it.</blockquote>

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