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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 9835339" data-attributes="member: 710">The "trick" is that the impact on balance is however felt the most in combat. Because it still is a signifcant part of the game, and it can kill the character if the party is bad at it. Your correct if all characters can roll for a single check, you can easily have the situation that the guy with the worst modifier rolls best and the one with the best rolls worst, so the guy worst at the task is the one succeeding. (And IMO, that is kinda an issue with the d20. Even though you're presumably good at it you might fail an easy task someone untrained and clueless beats because they rolled better. But that's a topic for a different conversation, I think).But in combat, it matters a lot, and people will choose their best stats and their dump stats accordingly - make sure this isn't going to hinder me in combat. Sure, it might be nice to have also a high wisdom on your Rogue, and you really want to find those traps, but your combat outcome is likely to be affected by the statistical long view, while your trap finding could fail even with a better bonus because you rolled a 2.</blockquote>