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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ExploderWizard" data-source="post: 4547466" data-attributes="member: 66434">For the strength issue, I thought about it a lot and decided to go with the OD&D style scale. Seeing as an ogre gets +2 to damage for having great strength there wasn't much wiggle room to provide bonuses to the human STR range without bonus creep. To be fair I made sure that there are no damage penalties for a 3 STR either. It might take getting used to but I think that not having a feeling that a character is " sub par" for having less than a near maximum in a stat is worth it.  As a side benefit, the system is balanced so that if that halfling wants to use a greatsword, then let him. Damage comes from skill so let the little guy have fun.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> For realism I would have used damage based on STR and modified by weapon ( GURPS again <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />).  The only problem with doing that goes back to the original topic........hit points. Basing damage on a STR score that doesn't scale with skyrocketing hit points would mean that high level combat would take days to finish. I have run GURPS combats with critters that had a 15+ HT and 70+ HP and they never end.  Skill based damage allows for scaling with level better than having to inflate stats. A grand master of the broadsword will doing something like 3d6+5 per hit and getting multiple attacks. With training being level controlled its easy to keep the fighters damage from being completely overshadowed by casters.  It also helps take care of the minion problem. Since NPC's and PC's don't have to follow the same rules, a bugbear thats scary to a first level character that only does 1-6 points of damage will become a speed bump to the guy doing 3d6+5. Give that bugbear some decent training and it becomes a viable threat to the higher level fighter without giving it character levels or turning it into a balloon with 1 hit point. Its the same bugbear with more skill yet it still drops in a good hit.<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=";)" /></blockquote>

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