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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Viktyr Gehrig" data-source="post: 3250249" data-attributes="member: 9249">Holy necropost, Batman!Certainly. However, there's a difference between a high human ability score, and a superhuman ability score-- like the difference between a strong human Barbarian, and an Orc Barbarian. If the super-strong mutant just drops a few more points into Strength, there's no real difference from a human... and the "super-strong" mutant might even be weaker than the strong human, especially if random rolls are used.An increase in power has to be paid for somehow, but allowing that power to be increased in different ways allows the price to be paid in different ways as well.You're absolutely correct, here. I might play around with the numbers a little-- been a long time since I've thought about this-- but I think 5/11/18 or 6/14/24 might work pretty well. Next time I start working on a setting with mutants in it, I'll have to start testing things. I can see it, yeah. It's just that it seemed natural to me to have a character with Reinforced Skeleton also have an increased Constitution, not as part of the power, but as an extension of the same concept.Reinforced Skeleton with Ability Decay (Constitution) is an interesting concept, and more compelling than Reinforced Skeleton with an improved Constitution... but it's nice for the system to support the cliches as well as allowing them to be broken.</blockquote>