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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 8315344" data-attributes="member: 23751">Better is better.  My point isn't that you can't do better.  My point is that the game is forgiving and balanced around lower numbers(14 or 16), so if you give up utility with other stats so that you can optimize with a 20 in your prime stat, that's a trade-off that you chose.  It's not the game's fault that you opted to do less well in other areas.It doesn't matter what the PC average is.  The average for all PC races is 10.  That PCs will often have multiple above average stats does not change what average is.  Why I think it's meaningful is that it sets the baseline for bonuses.  PCs don't suck if they have a 0 bonus.  A +1 is above average. A -1 is below average and it's debatable whether that sucks or not.</blockquote>