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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6038015" data-attributes="member: 1465"><p>The easiest solution would indeed be to just not have any ability increase by level.</p><p></p><p>I don't think that ability scores should really represent skill. They should represent "raw" capabilities. BUT raw capabilities CAN be increased during life (and can also be decreased by age, but this is another topic). Everybody knows that if your job demands physical efforts, your Strength increases, but that is also true about all the other abilities: you CAN train your Intelligence or your Charisma and so on.</p><p></p><p>So maybe a second possible approach would be to allow ability score increases by level but instead of capping them at 20, capping them at e.g. +2 or +3 from your starting score.</p><p></p><p>Alternative, instead of a fixed cap, this could actually be inherently done by granting them at a slower pace, e.g. only 1 increase every 4-5 level but you cannot increase the same score twice in a row (thus each score can increase only every 8 or 10 levels).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 6038015, member: 1465"] The easiest solution would indeed be to just not have any ability increase by level. I don't think that ability scores should really represent skill. They should represent "raw" capabilities. BUT raw capabilities CAN be increased during life (and can also be decreased by age, but this is another topic). Everybody knows that if your job demands physical efforts, your Strength increases, but that is also true about all the other abilities: you CAN train your Intelligence or your Charisma and so on. So maybe a second possible approach would be to allow ability score increases by level but instead of capping them at 20, capping them at e.g. +2 or +3 from your starting score. Alternative, instead of a fixed cap, this could actually be inherently done by granting them at a slower pace, e.g. only 1 increase every 4-5 level but you cannot increase the same score twice in a row (thus each score can increase only every 8 or 10 levels). [/QUOTE]
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