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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9827042" data-attributes="member: 23751">I've been thinking about this.Stats don't change that much, with strength and constitution being the ones you can affect the most through training and healthy eating.  Even then, though, what your are born with limits you.  Someone small and thin will never be able to train to be as strong as someone tall who has a broad build.  A wide receiver won't ever be able to be as strong as a lineman, while a lineman won't ever be as agile as a wide receiver.  The mental stats are even more limited as far as potential growth goes.  If you have a 100 IQ, you won't even be as smart as someone with a 140, even if you go to school and learn a great deal.  You might be more knowledgeable, but you won't be smarter.  Wisdom is similar.  There's only so much knowing what the right thing to do is that will help your wisdom.  Otherwise we wouldn't have nearly as many smokers, alcoholics and drug users as this world has.  That said, I have shared that pet peeve of yours.  I think that stats should change more often in D&D, if only because it's just plain more fun to see stats grow.  As a DM I tend to be a bit freer with stat increases via magic, encounters with beings and situations, etc. than most DMs that I've played with over the decades.</blockquote>