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Message: <blockquote data-quote="boar" data-source="post: 5026684" data-attributes="member: 81932">You would need some tweaking to make this system work, because as has been mentioned, the ability scores are not currently balanced. Wisdom affects 5 skills while Strength affects only 1, so why would I ever pick Strength? Currently, the fact that Strength is the defining stat for almost all of the melee classes is the balancing factor. Take that away and no one would ever pick it. If your goal is to differentiate the classes more, your change doesn't really accomplish that. It's ironic that you focus on the Rogue class in your examples, because Dexterity is the stat that just about everyone would pick. In addition to hit and damage, it boosts AC, a key class skill (stealth), and initiative (for CA in the first round). No other stat gives so much in one tidy package. Fighters fare little better. Everyone would either go Dex/Int so they could have defender AC in light armor, or Con for the hitpoints. "But that's powergaming!" you cry. "I would make a CHA fighter..." Well, that's nice. But it's simply not as good. And if you're willing to make a not-as-good character, you can already do that: you can make a perfectly fine fighter with 18 STR / 16 CHA (18 if you're a Dragonborn). So under your system, those who are willing to make suboptimal choices would gain nothing they don't already have, while everyone else would end up with even more homogenized characters.</blockquote>

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