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<blockquote data-quote="Mordhau" data-source="post: 8468415" data-attributes="member: 7032137"><p>I tend to feel ability scores just represent the things the character is good at.</p><p></p><p>I've found in the past that this creates a divide between how people see things. A lot of people want to see a character with high intelligence as very smart. But, I tend to see it these days as a character with a good intelligence score has a somewhat better chance of rolling high on certain rolls, and I would prefer to build the character around that more or less.</p><p></p><p>It's funny, in that people seem to take my view of it these days in regards to Strength. It used to be in the 90s that people would complain that their Fighter had to be built like Arnold Schwarzenegger in order to fight well and that wasn't how they pictured it. This doesn't seem to worry people so much these days (in part because the idea of Strength in our culture has changed a lot to include things like functional strength rather than just raw muscle size.)</p><p></p><p>I've written in the past about the weird obsession people have with players 'dumping' an ability score, based purely off the fact of a negative number (when in practical terms if 8 is a dumped score, then so is 10 - the difference between them is so small). </p><p></p><p>Honestly, these days, I find the "you have to role-play your ability scores" so tedious I don't think I could play in a game with a GM who insisted on it - (whatever they imagine that meaning.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mordhau, post: 8468415, member: 7032137"] I tend to feel ability scores just represent the things the character is good at. I've found in the past that this creates a divide between how people see things. A lot of people want to see a character with high intelligence as very smart. But, I tend to see it these days as a character with a good intelligence score has a somewhat better chance of rolling high on certain rolls, and I would prefer to build the character around that more or less. It's funny, in that people seem to take my view of it these days in regards to Strength. It used to be in the 90s that people would complain that their Fighter had to be built like Arnold Schwarzenegger in order to fight well and that wasn't how they pictured it. This doesn't seem to worry people so much these days (in part because the idea of Strength in our culture has changed a lot to include things like functional strength rather than just raw muscle size.) I've written in the past about the weird obsession people have with players 'dumping' an ability score, based purely off the fact of a negative number (when in practical terms if 8 is a dumped score, then so is 10 - the difference between them is so small). Honestly, these days, I find the "you have to role-play your ability scores" so tedious I don't think I could play in a game with a GM who insisted on it - (whatever they imagine that meaning.) [/QUOTE]
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