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<blockquote data-quote="Guest 6801328" data-source="post: 8186672">Ok, well you lost me with the implication that the movie version of Legolas is in any way a good thing.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> More seriously, I get the impetus, but when you start buffing combat...even if it's just one roll per encounter...it becomes awfully tempting from an optimization p.o.v..&nbsp; Especially if it's an after-the-fact roll.&nbsp; Depending on the length of the combat, adding 1d4 for a roll might actually be better than an across the board +1.&nbsp; Right?&nbsp; The +1 only helps if you happen to roll just one too low, happens about 1/20 times, so probably won't even happen in a fight.&nbsp; But expand that miss range to 2, or 3, and it's far more likely.Of course, you wouldn't be buffing damage, so it would be less powerful for that reason, and missing out on all the other benefits of the increased stat, so for that reason I like it a lot more than a racial ASI.(I'm also just not a fan of adding rolls to do the d20.&nbsp; I always find Bless to be a nuisance.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Guest 6801328, post: 8186672"] Ok, well you lost me with the implication that the movie version of Legolas is in any way a good thing. :) More seriously, I get the impetus, but when you start buffing combat...even if it's just one roll per encounter...it becomes awfully tempting from an optimization p.o.v.. Especially if it's an after-the-fact roll. Depending on the length of the combat, adding 1d4 for a roll might actually be [I]better[/I] than an across the board +1. Right? The +1 only helps if you happen to roll just one too low, happens about 1/20 times, so probably won't even happen in a fight. But expand that miss range to 2, or 3, and it's far more likely. Of course, you wouldn't be buffing damage, so it would be less powerful for that reason, and missing out on all the other benefits of the increased stat, so for that reason I like it a lot more than a racial ASI. (I'm also just not a fan of adding rolls to do the d20. I always find Bless to be a nuisance.) [/QUOTE]

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