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<blockquote data-quote="VanguardHero" data-source="post: 8437460" data-attributes="member: 7030089">I was recently looking at the Critical Role characters' stats and how their much higher than RAW values leads to much more interesting (and viable!) characters. A lot of what determines tiers of characters in 5e is SAD vs MAD. A Wizard only really needs INT, so they just need one good score. A Monk though? Dex for hit and damage and AC, Con for survivability as a d8 frontliner, Wis for AC and Stunning Strike. You need THREE solid rolls for the Monk vs ONE for the Wizard. Even worse in Point Buy where you get less than rolled average worth of stats. Matt's system of setting a safety net of rerolls helps a LOT to lessen the tier gaps. Sure, Wizard gets more Wisdom and Charisma, but they serve more as flavor stats, whereas Monk gets all their stats solid and get to actually function well. And yeah, one level Hexblade dip helps any Charisma class that wants to Melee. Stone Sorcerer, Bard, Paladin, or even a Face Rogue. Really every Class should just be able to use their key ability stat to do their thing, if only there was some system that had figured that out WotC could've learned a lot from it...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="VanguardHero, post: 8437460, member: 7030089"] I was recently looking at the Critical Role characters' stats and how their much higher than RAW values leads to much more interesting (and viable!) characters. A lot of what determines tiers of characters in 5e is SAD vs MAD. A Wizard only really needs INT, so they just need one good score. A Monk though? Dex for hit and damage and AC, Con for survivability as a d8 frontliner, Wis for AC and Stunning Strike. You need THREE solid rolls for the Monk vs ONE for the Wizard. Even worse in Point Buy where you get less than rolled average worth of stats. Matt's system of setting a safety net of rerolls helps a LOT to lessen the tier gaps. Sure, Wizard gets more Wisdom and Charisma, but they serve more as flavor stats, whereas Monk gets all their stats solid and get to actually function well. And yeah, one level Hexblade dip helps any Charisma class that wants to Melee. Stone Sorcerer, Bard, Paladin, or even a Face Rogue. Really every Class should just be able to use their key ability stat to do their thing, if only there was some system that had figured that out WotC could've learned a lot from it... [/QUOTE]

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