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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LurkAway" data-source="post: 5745306" data-attributes="member: 6685059">In real-life sports, cheating (i.e, performance enhancing drugs) gives an unfair advantage. It is a competition of innate performance, so artificially enhancing your natural abilities is unfair.If the competition was about sumtotal performance (natural, drug-enhancing, cybernetics), then there's no such thing as an unfair advantage.In RPGs, cheating (ie., sometimes acting beyond your Charisma) gives an unfair advantage? Organically enhancing your artificial stats is unfair because... it's a competition of artificial character stats?I thought that an rpg is about human agency in a fantasy. The character is the sumtotal of the player and the character stats.It's absolutely applauded to be true to the character concept. But what is a 10 Cha exactly and innately? How can you respect a number as anything but a general guideline when that number is a gross simplification and amalgamated abstraction of many different elements of personality?</blockquote>