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<blockquote data-quote="Arial Black" data-source="post: 7215719" data-attributes="member: 6799649">I was brought up on 1E, and the situation you describe, where stats less than 15 gave you no mechanical benefits, did not result in a sea of PCs with stats around 14 with the occasional 15! Oh, no, no, no!What happened was that every player wanted those juicy mechanical bonuses! And so they skewed their rolling systems or just outright lied, so that their PCs had some damn bonuses! If you didn't have any bonuses, what's the point of stats? Any PC rolled without bonuses got thrown in the bin and a new set was rolled until you got some.The advantage of the linear bonus thing is that every stat has a bonus associated with it (well, modifier). You don't feel the need to throw away a PC who has six 14s. In 1E, six 14s was a totally useless PC, no better than six 7s. In 5E, six 14s would be cheating-style good!The stats thing has changed for the better.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Arial Black, post: 7215719, member: 6799649"] I was brought up on 1E, and the situation you describe, where stats less than 15 gave you no mechanical benefits, did [b]not[/b] result in a sea of PCs with stats around 14 with the occasional 15! Oh, no, no, no! What happened was that every player wanted those juicy mechanical bonuses! And so they skewed their rolling systems or just outright lied, so that their PCs had some damn bonuses! If you didn't have [i]any[/i] bonuses, what's the point of stats? Any PC rolled without bonuses got thrown in the bin and a new set was rolled until you got some. The advantage of the linear bonus thing is that every stat has a bonus associated with it (well, modifier). You don't feel the need to throw away a PC who has six 14s. In 1E, six 14s was a totally useless PC, no better than six 7s. In 5E, six 14s would be cheating-style good! The stats thing has changed for the better. [/QUOTE]

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