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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Esker" data-source="post: 7637682" data-attributes="member: 6966824">They  would be more MAD, but the impact of each stat would be reduced, so you  could build an accurate character, a hard hitting character, or  somewhere in between. Everyone would do less damage on average though so  you'd probably want to do some HP scaling.I  think on balance that's probably true, but for normal weapon attacks  against most typical ACs, an extra point to damage has a slightly bigger  impact on average damage than an extra point to accuracy. So for ranged  characters with extra attack, they might actually choose to prioritize  STR over DEX (SS aside, which definitely shifts things in favor of  accuracy boosts; that's a whole other can of worms). I could imagine  adding strength requirements to use heavy weapons.Yeah. Quite a lot  of things would need reworking after a change as sweeping as this one.  Elven accuracy could be restricted to certain classes of weapons instead  of certain classes of ability score. If elven accuracy excluded  two-handed melee weapons and reckless attack excluded ranged weapons (as  it does now), then the only weapons that could benefit from both would  be one-handed melee weapons, for which there's no -5/+10 feat to abuse  the superadvantage. I could also see replacing the advantage benefit of  reckless attack with an extra bonus to-hit equal to your strength mod,  so it no longer interacts at all with elven accuracy (which it feels  like it shouldn't anyway).Yeah,  that's a good observation. Requiring minimum strength scores for heavy  weapons would address that to an extent, though it wouldn't remove the  issue.Yeah, maybe, though it's already a bit odd now vs finesse and ranged  weapons. I don't know that anyone is actually piercing metal armor now  though, are they? It feels more plausible to me to say that higher  quality armor leaves fewer vulnerable areas to target.</blockquote>

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