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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Terraism" data-source="post: 517417" data-attributes="member: 278">Alright, I've got one of those annoying questions for people, where I try to logically undermine one of the building blocks of D&D.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  Here goes...Anyone have any reasonable arguments for why people can't increase their stats naturally?  Yes, 3rd Edition has the 1 pt/4 levels rule, which helps a good deal, but that's not quite what I'm talking about.  I'm mainly focusing on strength, here, by the way, because it's the most observable.Say a guy's got a strength of 10.  He starts working out - albeit, there's no modern gyms to use, but pushups, lifts, all that kinda thing still exist.  Within about a month, of doing this a bit each day, he goes from being able to lift a 100 lbs to lifting a good 150.  Technically, a 150 would be a 12 - but there's no way he's gone up the eight levels necessary for two stat points.  Ok, then - I've been dwelling on this for a while, and anyone have any reasonable arguments - aside from "it's unbalancing," why this shouldn't be the case?</blockquote>