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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9228813" data-attributes="member: 58172">That diversity of players at your table is cool.The six abilities are seriously unbalanced with each other. This is a game design problem. It requires a game design fix.Unfortunately, the designers have their hands tied by "tradition". One of the goal designs of 5e 2014 was to unify all of the previous editions of D&D into one edition. Something like whatever "felt" like D&D the most. This is a useful goal, and proved profitable. Unfortunately, part of the "feel" is players having accustomed themselves to a six abilities that works ambiguously, awkwardly and less well, at times even poorly and faultily. Any fix would feel unfamiliar to some degree.The need for both Strength and Dexterity for mobility (jump-fall, climb-balance) when each ability makes the other dumpable, is painful and interferes with the parkour concept and the swashbuckling genre. Dexterity by itself is radically more useful, powerful and frequent, than the other physical abilities. The overlap of Strength weapons and finesse weapons is ambiguous. The mental abilities are radically imbalanced compared to each other. Wisdom is everything. Charisma is decent by itself, but classes organize to make it a super ability for magic. In practice, Intelligence is little more than "DM gives a hint", and is either arbitrary or worthless. The overlap between Intelligence Investigation and Wisdom Perception is ambiguous. The overlap between Intelligence knowledge and Wisdom "intuition" is ambiguous. And so on.The 5e 2014 six abilities have huge, deep, and pervasively consequential design problems.For 2024, will D&D players give the designers permission to fix these game engine breakdowns?</blockquote>

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