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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mal Malenkirk" data-source="post: 4654338" data-attributes="member: 834">Most people seem to think like you.  There were only 4 characters with con 10 out of 46 and as I said, no one dumped it.There is a very simple logical reason for Constitution to be on average higher than other stats.1 - If you are a from any melee (or close range) class, you need (or at least feel you need) a decent constitution as a matter of fact, wether or not you invest in STR.  2 - If you are never in melee, you typically don't need strenght.  But you still need a decent fortitude!  So you invest in constitution.  It follows that virually no one dumps constitution.  Exotic classes such as the new sorcerer might end up with very low con on a common basis.  After all, they stay out of range and have an incentive (If using Drgon Magic) to have a good str.  This could lead to fairly common low con build.---Another important factor in selecting constitution score would be the campaign :  A campaign that caters to the one fight working day paradigm favors low con.  In a single fight, it's extremely hard to blow through more than 5 surge in one fight so all you lose with a sucky con is 2 to 6 hp.  At high level, it is meaningless.But if you are in a campaign where you commonly have 3 to 5 fights a day, no one ever dumps constitution!  EVER!  The difference between 8 and 12 in constitution is being fit or not on the last fight of the day.</blockquote>