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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9230224" data-attributes="member: 6801228">While I could see the use of a feat, I think that rather misses the point. A feat is something like Mage Slayer, which incorporates a specific ideal. But the argument I am reading in this discussion is more generically archetypical. Dex-based characters are expected to be able to perform certain stunts of climbing and jumping that they are just denied access to without a high strength. However, strength not only doesn't help them in their main duties, but it also opens up things they can do that the player might not WANT them to be able to do, like bursting steel chains. Sure, an Olympic Gymnast isn't an Olympic Long Jumper isn't an Olympic Wrestler isn't an Olympic Archer... but DnD doesn't have that level of granularity. And using a feat to cover a basic part of an archetype that is missing from an entire ability score is... frustrating. Especially since we have so many instances of parallels between the two scores, that it feels off that a high dex character cannot leap and jump as we imagine they would, while both can do things like slip past enemies in combat via identical rules that use two different stats.</blockquote>