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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alnag" data-source="post: 3445386" data-attributes="member: 10087">Actually it might be not as irrational as it seems. The ability number work as a kind of "hit points" by itself. As long as some spells/abilities will be increasing or decreasing abilities via  dice roll (aka -1d6 Con) you have to have appropriate range of these "ability hit points". Yes... it might be solved either by not targeting abilities by any changes (ability status quo as another step of game simplification - which brings different problems) or by increasing and decreasing modifiers with small dice ranges (1d3) or by fix changes one step up/down. This solution again brings some inevitable problems, which must be solve by themselves.Spells, poisons, special conditions and rules all work with the primary ability number sometimes. If you want to kick the number (and kill the cow) you have to solve this problem without making mess in the rest of the rules. Because so far we are just "attack the ability hitpoints"... it is just application of the same principle. Here you will have to come with new principle (but they use the principle - step down - with the damage treshold, so it might not be so much problem anyway). Well, better end this rant sooner till I will disagree with myself.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:"  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" /></blockquote>

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