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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gorgoroth" data-source="post: 6123787" data-attributes="member: 6674889"><img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/Styles/Blackend/misc/quote_icon.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> Originally Posted by DEFCON 1 <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?p=6123261#post6123261" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/Styles/Blackend/buttons/viewpost-right.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>I think we all just need to get over the "this +1 doesn't do anything!" mentality.Taking a +1 when you have an even stat isn't "getting nothing"...Disagree. If D&D Next is a lethal game, you cannot be guaranteed your will live long enough to ever gain any benefit (since you have a wait a few levels to gain the next +1 to get your mod bonus when you do go up to an even score). I like the odds of benefiting from a character choice to approach 1, rather than, say, 50%.I don't know what the odds are of surviving, but it's only possible to even begin to statistically balance out the trade off of this choice between a +1 and a feat if you have an absurdly high chance of not dying for three more levels. Which is a game I do not want to play. Anyway, this is all academic, they need to either a) give a +1 to two stats, or b) a +2 to one stat, or, even better, c) make each point give something immediate.For strength and dex you can easily split the damage and to-hit bonuses between even and odd scores, even = +1 more to hit, odd = +1 more to damage. Or for dex even = +1 AC, odd = +1 to hit/damage. For Strength I think the only solution is to give MORE damage, similar to 2e. I.e. an 18/00 had +3 / +6, but you could easily have +2 / +5 or some other non equal to-hit / damage values. The more I think about it, the more I realize that 2e had a far superior stat system than anything since. I'm super cereal about this, guys.System shock rolls made nobody want to dump Con. I want stats to simulate more stuff, better, rather than less, and worse. 2e had it right. Each point counts, after 15. We could spread that out a bit, but every point should give something. If we grant regen due to high Con, it should grant it at 21. </blockquote>

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