It's easier than before to mitigate a low or average DEX with the use of heavy armor.
Your 16 DEX fighter:
AC 17 with light armor (studded leather, DEX, and shield)
AC 18 with medium armor (scale mail, 2 from DEX, and shield)
AC 18 with heavy armor (chain mail and shield)
It really doesn't make that much of a difference this time around.
+3 on dex saves, major save category
More dex based skills
dex to initiative
+3 to hit with ranged weapons.
It's easier than before to mitigate a low or average DEX with the use of heavy armor.
Your 16 DEX fighter:
AC 17 with light armor (studded leather, DEX, and shield)
AC 18 with medium armor (scale mail, 2 from DEX, and shield)
AC 18 with heavy armor (chain mail and shield)
It really doesn't make that much of a difference this time around.
20 strength--which is peak human for dnd characters now--means you can lift 600 lbs off the ground. The world record is 1015 lbs.
My change is that you increase the multiplier from 15 to 100 if you're strength is 15 or higher. Max out at 4,000 lbs. Ten times weaker than Spider-man, but still able to do some moderately useful things like lift a wagon off of someone.
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That, and you can add half your strength modifier, rounded up, to constitution and dexterity saves.
20 strength--which is peak human for dnd characters now--means you can lift 600 lbs off the ground. The world record is 1015 lbs.
TBH, I have never been in a game where lifting dead weight has been that important, its the push/drag part that I would be focusing on modeling.