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<blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 5770025" data-attributes="member: 8158"><p>Seems to me that if you only apply ability scores to skills, you may as well just make the ability scores into skills. For instance, the FATE RPG doesn't have ability scores. It has a "Might" skill for feats of strength.</p><p></p><p>I think ability score elimination is a good example of why involving the fans is hardly likely to generate a better game. I have no doubts that if WotC asked fans right now if they should eliminate ability scores, the general sentiment would be "no". Some folks would be motivated by nostalgia, and nostalgia is, frankly, a weak reason to maintain a system. Some people would insist that they serve a vital descriptive role in painting a picture of a character, which is about rational as having an ability score for height and eyee color. </p><p></p><p>But mainly folks would vote to keep it because they don't see the matter in terms of something better replacing it. They see it in terms of removing it, and can't imagine the void being filled in a better way. </p><p></p><p>That's particularly true in America, the country that rejected the metric system because it meant making an adjustment. We have a number of cliches in our society for portraying complacency as a virtue. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" and "we'll cross that bridge when we come to it" and "don't count your chickens before they're hatched". All of that just amounts to people not wanting to think ahead or be troubled with adopting new things. Heck, just look at the OP of this thread.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Felon, post: 5770025, member: 8158"] Seems to me that if you only apply ability scores to skills, you may as well just make the ability scores into skills. For instance, the FATE RPG doesn't have ability scores. It has a "Might" skill for feats of strength. I think ability score elimination is a good example of why involving the fans is hardly likely to generate a better game. I have no doubts that if WotC asked fans right now if they should eliminate ability scores, the general sentiment would be "no". Some folks would be motivated by nostalgia, and nostalgia is, frankly, a weak reason to maintain a system. Some people would insist that they serve a vital descriptive role in painting a picture of a character, which is about rational as having an ability score for height and eyee color. But mainly folks would vote to keep it because they don't see the matter in terms of something better replacing it. They see it in terms of removing it, and can't imagine the void being filled in a better way. That's particularly true in America, the country that rejected the metric system because it meant making an adjustment. We have a number of cliches in our society for portraying complacency as a virtue. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" and "we'll cross that bridge when we come to it" and "don't count your chickens before they're hatched". All of that just amounts to people not wanting to think ahead or be troubled with adopting new things. Heck, just look at the OP of this thread. [/QUOTE]
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