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<blockquote data-quote="Ltheb Silverfrond" data-source="post: 3420525" data-attributes="member: 39867">While damage might seem more potent at higher levels than AC, they are NOT related. A 20th level fighter might have 200 hit points. Without some serious game-breaking cheese, that fighter won't even have 100 AC. Heck, he'd be hard pressed to have 50.Also, by the time you can have 100 natural strength, for VSC purposes, you are going to have A LOT more HP. If you just use your 1-per-4-levels stat up, it takes 308 levels to get 100 strength, even with the +5 inherrent. You might be able to get 100 strength by 100th level with the Great Strength feat, and/or barbarian rage, but that just gives you X8 damage. Too bad a 100th level character has X100 Hitpoints from con.Strength does look unbalancing at those levels, because it's the only stat that gives a mechanical bonus to killing people. Dex just lets you dodge or hit with finesse. Con lets you survive blows. Int, Wisdom, and Charisma, barring class features or feats, only grant bonuses to skills. Surly if there was some scaling mechanic for those stats they would seem unbalanced too. Example: What if for every 2 points of constitution, you could ignore all the effects and damage of 1 single attack or spell a day? 100 Con now seems much more potent.But as Pssthpok has said (roughly), there isn't too much in D20 that is equal, and thats all right. If it was, the game would be boring.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ltheb Silverfrond, post: 3420525, member: 39867"] While damage might seem more potent at higher levels than AC, they are NOT related. A 20th level fighter might have 200 hit points. Without some serious game-breaking cheese, that fighter won't even have 100 AC. Heck, he'd be hard pressed to have 50. Also, by the time you can have 100 natural strength, for VSC purposes, you are going to have A LOT more HP. If you just use your 1-per-4-levels stat up, it takes 308 levels to get 100 strength, even with the +5 inherrent. You might be able to get 100 strength by 100th level with the Great Strength feat, and/or barbarian rage, but that just gives you X8 damage. Too bad a 100th level character has X100 Hitpoints from con. Strength does look unbalancing at those levels, because it's the only stat that gives a mechanical bonus to killing people. Dex just lets you dodge or hit with finesse. Con lets you survive blows. Int, Wisdom, and Charisma, barring class features or feats, only grant bonuses to skills. Surly if there was some scaling mechanic for those stats they would seem unbalanced too. Example: What if for every 2 points of constitution, you could ignore all the effects and damage of 1 single attack or spell a day? 100 Con now seems much more potent. But as Pssthpok has said (roughly), there isn't too much in D20 that is equal, and thats all right. If it was, the game would be boring. [/QUOTE]

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