Do you always put your stat bumps in your two highest stats?

[Thanee]

Always increase primary.

Mostly always increase secondary, but sometimes an attribute needs to be raised a point or two to meet prerequisites for feats and such.

Bye
Thanee

 

[MrMyth]

I always put my stat bonuses into my highest score, since there's pretty much nothing I could possibly get from a secondary ability score that's more important than hitting more.

But as for my second stat bonus? That can go anywhere that I think will give me value. Some classes really rely on their secondary ability scores, but others don't.

Yeah, this basically covers it. My primary score will pretty much always get bumped. Usually a secondary stat will as well... but sometimes points are spread between two other stats, or even three, either for build or concept reasons.

 

[Dausuul]

I pretty much always put them in my two highest stats. Once in a while when designing a character, I toy with the idea of spreading my secondary stat points around, but it never pans out that way - boosting the same two stats every time always ends up being a better choice. (That the primary stat will always get boosted is never in question.)

 

[karlindel]

I always bump the primary, and usually bump the highest secondary, but will sometimes put the other bump into a different stat. Sometimes this is necessary to meet feat prerequisites. Also, some classes have more than one secondary stat that is useful (such as the Resourceful Warlord).

 

[Jhaelen]

I always put my stat bonuses into my highest score, since there's pretty much nothing I could possibly get from a secondary ability score that's more important than hitting more.

But as for my second stat bonus? That can go anywhere that I think will give me value. Some classes really rely on their secondary ability scores, but others don't.

Plus, my group has decided to avoid the point buy arms race by just using a standard array of 16/14/13/12/11/10. This means that my characters start the game with two odd ability scores, which might be worth boosting at some point to even them out.

This, this, and this

 

[catsclaw227]

I like to make it so that by 30th level, with racial modifiers, I have an array of 18/18/18/18/17/17.

My charakters ar teh bestist.


(good thing I DM almost exclusively these days...)

 

[CharlesRyan]

I put them where they'll do the most good. That's usually in the primary, but not always. If my primary's on an even number and there's a useful tertiary that's on an odd number, I may well bump the tertiary.

 

[catsclaw227]

I put them where they'll do the most good. That's usually in the primary, but not always. If my primary's on an even number and there's a useful tertiary that's on an odd number, I may well bump the tertiary.

In all seriousness, though, this is what I do as well. Though I MIGHT even bump a smaller stat to qualify for a prerequisite.

 

[Herschel]

Always increase primary.

Mostly always increase secondary, but sometimes an attribute needs to be raised a point or two to meet prerequisites for feats and such.

Bye
Thanee

This.

 

[Jack99]

I bump my primary every time, my secondary almost every time. There might be a few situations where I don't but they are rare.