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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Souljourner" data-source="post: 1518926" data-attributes="member: 1622">I actually really like the 3.x stat system.  It's back to basics, with nice easy bonuses that apply to just about everything.  No more need for a different weird-ass chart for each ability score, so no one really knows what bonus a 17 gives to open doors.  Now we all know automatically it's +3.  Easy.  Making it one for one would screw up the d20 system.... though I definitely think something needs to be done about ability checks.  The fact that a strength 18 guys is only about 20% more likely to succeed at a feat of strength than a strength 10 guy is ridiculous.  The bonuses work fine for combat, where a difference of +3 makes a huge difference over the course of a fight, but when it's a one-off roll, the stat should have a much bigger impact.And yeah, +1s are stupid in the system.  +2 always adds 1 to your modifier, and -2 always subtracts one.  And since it's the modifiers that matter (usually), that's the best way to do it.  And besides, why bother with +1?  It's miniscule.  On the grand scale of things, a race that gets +1 to strength is barely differentiable from humans, whereas +2 is a more significant difference.-The Souljourner</blockquote>