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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 3866767" data-attributes="member: 42582">Maybe I've misunderstood, or mabye I'm really agreeing with you, but I don't see this as a MAD problem but rather as a problem of mismatch between player expectations about the gameworld, and what the rules tell us about the gameworld.If it really is the case that, in the game, only those with powerful personalities are able to use their magic effectively against others (ie if CHA increases spell attack power) than there won't be very many (anti-personell) casters who are shy book-worms. Most such spell users will be more like Doctor Strange or Professor X or Gandalf - that is, they will be dominating personalities.This is no different to there not being very many warriors who are so unfit they can't jog to the bus-stop (ie most fighters have average to high CON).Should the internal logic of the gameworld be set up in this way? I guess the worry is that permitting shy book-worm casters becomes unbalanced if it means that the players of wizards can ignore one more stat in their character build, thereby getting an optimisation advantage that players of other classes don't.</blockquote>