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<blockquote data-quote="dave2008" data-source="post: 9561174" data-attributes="member: 83242">Sure I guess there is always a way to do things. It wouldn't be quite the same, but similar.&nbsp; The issue I would have is that ability scores tell me something about a creature that modifiers don't. I guess you could change that to and say strength 0 is an average persons strength. I know some manga that do that, but it feels odd to me.&nbsp; I also like having a bit more granularity and differentiation that ability can and do give me that just using mods (under the current paradigm) do not. Also, it is not an issue for the 2025 MM or any monster book really. I am going to drop CR shortly after the MM comes out and move to making monsters by level. So my stat blocks are going to move to being much more customized to they my group plays. So I will be keeping the ability scores on my monsters and it will not matter what WotC or anyone else does (for me and my group).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dave2008, post: 9561174, member: 83242"] Sure I guess there is always a way to do things. It wouldn't be quite the same, but similar. The issue I would have is that ability scores tell me something about a creature that modifiers don't. I guess you could change that to and say strength 0 is an average persons strength. I know some manga that do that, but it feels odd to me. I also like having a bit more granularity and differentiation that ability can and do give me that just using mods (under the current paradigm) do not. Also, it is not an issue for the 2025 MM or any monster book really. I am going to drop CR shortly after the MM comes out and move to making monsters by level. So my stat blocks are going to move to being much more customized to they my group plays. So I will be keeping the ability scores on my monsters and it will not matter what WotC or anyone else does (for me and my group). [/QUOTE]

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