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Message: <blockquote data-quote="UngeheuerLich" data-source="post: 9228282" data-attributes="member: 59057">Point is, they are never equal. They have strength in different areas. Dex based fighters are bad at initiating grapples, pushes and trips. They are less able to switch between ranged and melee if they also want to use a shield. They are worse at utilizing improvised weapons or fighting unarmed. Dex based fighters make up for this with their own advantages.But that does not make them equal.They are not better, not worse, they are different.You asked someone else to point out misunderstandings, so I think I should clarify:You seem to believe character strength is on a linear scale, so that one build must be better than one other. Characters however are multidimensional. Atteibutes alone make them 6 dimensional. Of course you can use some metric to compare them linearly. But even then, you can have characters with different attributes having the same linear "value". But this metric is not something that is fixed. You can have different metrics for the same 6-dimensional space.Your metric probably is derived from your own experience and the adventures you use. But others can have different metrices. And my objection is just that even using a metric and someone else usong a different one does not make the other one wrong. I just point out, that some metrics just don't value one dimension and thus seem to be incomplete to me. If you see character stats as points in a 6 dimensional space, sonetimes putting points in dex and str can give a better "value" using the metric derived from your experience.</blockquote>

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