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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8679116" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Again, I see a lot of tangential statements that don't contradict what I said. Dex is better, on the net, to a pretty clear degree. It's not hurting yourself to not go Dex. But Strength is clearly second fiddle.Like how much clearer do I have to be? I expressly said you still get things. You just aren't having a pure trade-off. All else being equal, a Dex Fighter is overall more effective than a Strength one, in much the same way that a Battle Master will be more effective than a Champion and a Paladin will in general be more effective than a Battle Master Fighter, even with all characters played with equal skill. The way 5e works in practice and the patterns of behavior usually demonstrated in most games will reward some choices consistently more than others. That doesn't mean there's NOTHING you get from those other choices. You just get less.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 8679116, member: 6790260"] Again, I see a lot of tangential statements that don't contradict what I said. Dex is better, on the net, to a pretty clear degree. It's not [I]hurting yourself[/I] to not go Dex. But Strength is clearly second fiddle. Like how much clearer do I have to be? I expressly said you still get things. You just aren't having a pure trade-off. All else being equal, a Dex Fighter is overall more effective than a Strength one, in much the same way that a Battle Master will be more effective than a Champion and a Paladin will in general be more effective than a Battle Master Fighter, even with all characters played with equal skill. The way 5e works in practice and the patterns of behavior usually demonstrated in most games will reward some choices consistently more than others. That doesn't mean there's NOTHING you get from those other choices. You just get less. [/QUOTE]

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