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<blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 4938211" data-attributes="member: 15538">Even as a &quot;fix&quot; for low Cha, the ability doesn't really alter balance if you move the penalty to a different state. While it may take a tiefling from an effective 15 to an effective 19 if you go from penalty to bonus, since a sorcerer's highest stat is probably going to be a Cha anyway, it doesn't change much. In theory, you might be assisting in a stat dump if their lowest ability is the the one that gets the penalty, although I tend to believe that any sufficiently low ability become a liability soone or later. A fix is useful because it means that a tiefling with the standard array can have a Cha 19 and hence 9th-level spells without an enhancement or inherent bonus. Basically, the ability is equivalent to about two feats. You can presume that an infernal tiefling is probably about one feat ahead of his peers in terms of balance while an arcane sorcerer is about one feat behind.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pawsplay, post: 4938211, member: 15538"] Even as a "fix" for low Cha, the ability doesn't really alter balance if you move the penalty to a different state. While it may take a tiefling from an effective 15 to an effective 19 if you go from penalty to bonus, since a sorcerer's highest stat is probably going to be a Cha anyway, it doesn't change much. In theory, you might be assisting in a stat dump if their lowest ability is the the one that gets the penalty, although I tend to believe that any sufficiently low ability become a liability soone or later. A fix is useful because it means that a tiefling with the standard array can have a Cha 19 and hence 9th-level spells without an enhancement or inherent bonus. Basically, the ability is equivalent to about two feats. You can presume that an infernal tiefling is probably about one feat ahead of his peers in terms of balance while an arcane sorcerer is about one feat behind. [/QUOTE]

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