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<blockquote data-quote="Urbannen" data-source="post: 1253272" data-attributes="member: 7643">True, but ability scores have some concrete concepts attached to them.&nbsp; Strength gives you a concrete lifting ability.&nbsp; The average ability score for humans is concretely defined as being 10 to 11, while the maximum ability score a human can begin adulthood with is concretely 18.&nbsp; When you see stat scores in the mid to high 20's, that equates into superhero-like abilities.&nbsp; The reason it feels abstract is because the D&amp;D game cannot enforce RP consequences for having a 26 Strength, Intelligence, or Charisma. It's an assumption of many campaigns that PCs will attain these abilities somehow.&nbsp; PCs live in a segment of society where it's not unusual to have a demi-godlike ability score or scores, kind of like in the real world some people live in a segment of society where it's not unusual to own several plots of land the size of Rhode Island.&nbsp; High level PCs live in a milieu in which all their peers have superhuman abilities, thus they don't see it as being strange.You're right, low-magic is not the correct way to talk about it.&nbsp; Maybe &quot;Grim 'N Gritty&quot; vs. &quot;Xena&quot;?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Urbannen, post: 1253272, member: 7643"] True, but ability scores have some concrete concepts attached to them. Strength gives you a concrete lifting ability. The average ability score for humans is concretely defined as being 10 to 11, while the maximum ability score a human can begin adulthood with is concretely 18. When you see stat scores in the mid to high 20's, that equates into superhero-like abilities. The reason it feels abstract is because the D&D game cannot enforce RP consequences for having a 26 Strength, Intelligence, or Charisma. It's an assumption of many campaigns that PCs will attain these abilities somehow. PCs live in a segment of society where it's not unusual to have a demi-godlike ability score or scores, kind of like in the real world some people live in a segment of society where it's not unusual to own several plots of land the size of Rhode Island. High level PCs live in a milieu in which all their peers have superhuman abilities, thus they don't see it as being strange. You're right, low-magic is not the correct way to talk about it. Maybe "Grim 'N Gritty" vs. "Xena"? [/QUOTE]

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