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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lackhand" data-source="post: 4014850" data-attributes="member: 36160">You are <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Raw stat checks are exceeding rare, the strength check bend bars/lift gates check being the only common exception. So the current guess is that all stats are presented (for monsters & such, at least) as untrained skill modifiers, to reflect the benefits that advanced experience grant.It does mean that raw strength checks have to be "back-figured", if such things are even used that frequently anymore.It's just easier, or so Current Speculative Wisdom holds.Edit: Further speculation, completely off topic: It may be that even things that were classically strength checks -- lifting boulders, toppling pillars, busting chains (or doors), and so on... are now binary, you are strong enough to do this unassisted, or you are not.Certainly solves the "party wizard rolls a 20/party barbarian rolls a 1" conundrum. Anything skill related can be rolled for, anything that would have been a straight stat check is really more of a "compare" than a check.There's always hacking the door down, you see; or perhaps it's just a strength modified attack (ahah! there's that 1/2 again!).</blockquote>