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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kaomera" data-source="post: 4974920" data-attributes="member: 38357">I don't feel (personally) that removing ability score increases would have been a reasonable choice for the 4e designers. I also don't believe that ability score increases where included to make the 1-30 math work; I think it's the other way around. The general (level-based) ability score bonuses added in 3e "let the genie out of the bottle", IMO. A lot of players just wouldn't be satisfied with not getting their ability score increases, and  IMO ENWorld would be flooded with threads calling for WotC to issue errata or about houseruling them back in.I do agree that these increases muck up the math. Just about everything messes up the math in 4e, really. At some point you have to decide what's "close enough". The designers made that choice and (surprise, surprise) not everyone agreed with it. I just don't see what they could have done differently that wouldn't have caused at least as many problems, overall.</blockquote>