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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WaterRabbit" data-source="post: 1606998" data-attributes="member: 2445">My understanding is that symmetry is the universal trait for "beauty".  If you take the ideas of beauty within each culture, the more symmetrical people are considered beautiful.  This is independent of cultural practices (rings, foot binding, what-have-you).Roughly is a little inaccurate here.  Both Strength and Dexterity are worth twice the other stats.On the general discussion, probably the simplest and most accurate method would be to get rid of stats altogether.  For the most part, the raw stat score is rarely used in the game.  Oh, once and a while a character might have to make a strength or intelligence check, but for the most part a character uses skills, feats, and derived values to accomplish their goals.  So instead of having stats which affect skill, BAB, etc. why not just use them directly and advance those derived abilities that best represent your character ?For example, if your character is strong, instead of having a strength score he instead has higher values in Jump, Climb, Melee Damage, Carrying Capacity, Swim, etc.  You could then more custom tailor where your character talents are.  Maybe your character has a strong upper body compared to his lower body.  He would then put more emphasis on Climb and less on Jump.  I posit that ability scores are unneeded.  Instead let’s have the capability to modify the direct values of the game instead of deriving them from six scores that don’t really do a good job of modeling characters anyway.  Given the number of arguments about what ability is best used with a given skill (Intimidate comes to mind) removing the abilities would step-side this whole issue.  The problem is not going to completely go away, because then there will be discussions about what skills, feats, etc. should be in the game – the correct answer is the ones that will be used.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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