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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Esker" data-source="post: 7887732" data-attributes="member: 6966824">I like the idea of taking ASIs to your main stat off the table so that people can just pick up fun feats without agonizing over the opportunity cost of the missed ASI. I also like the idea of shaking up the tired sameness of the obvious race/class combinations. I'm not sure I like the inevitability of every character having (at least) 3 8s.Something I have toyed with but never implemented is replacing ASIs with a budget of 6 points, where raising a stat up to 15 costs 1 point per increment, between 16 and 18 costs 2 points, and raising it above 18 costs 3 points. Full feats cost all 6; half feats cost 3 and no longer come with +1 to a stat, and you can spend the other 3 on ability scores where you like, or take a second half-feat. One thing this does is make it easier to "catch up" if you pick a race that doesn't get a bonus to your main stat. For example, suppose I want to play a mountain dwarf wizard. I start with 15 INT, 14 DEX, 14 CON, 13 WIS, 10 STR, 8 CHA. At level 4 I can bump my INT to 18 if I spend my full allotment, and now I'm mostly caught up with where, say, a high elf would be (they could start with 16 INT, 16 DEX, 13 CON, 12 WIS, 10 STR, 8 CHA), then at level 4 bump INT to 18, CON to 14 and WIS to 13; they're identical in stats now to my mountain dwarf except for their higher DEX; but I get to wear medium armor.</blockquote>