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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StarFyre" data-source="post: 5850771" data-attributes="member: 26055">Personally, my group and myself have never found 'higher numbers' to be an issue. In fact, it gives a more granular difference where each different piece of equipment, each tactical advantage you try, each magic item, and each ability makes a difference.I compare this, for ease, to warhammer where everything is based on a d6, and stats go from 1-10 (with only wounds, and # of attacks being allowed beyond 10).In that system, Ogres are as tough as a lizardmen or chaos warrior or tough elf.  THey are described as being a lot more tough, but gameplay wise, they aren't. Instead, they have more wounds (ie. hp).  FLuffwise, it should be both.  But giving them a 5 toughness, would tips the scales too much and their point cost would have to increase drastically.  Since the 'math' is very flat in warhammer this works fine (although in many cases it doesn't make sense, and wierd stuff does happen in the game).I think the main issue with the escalating values is what another person here posted;  monsters, etc become less interesting most of the time since it's hard to think of cool abilities, etc to make tougher and tougher encounters fun.Shouldn't the focus be on that (the fun factor) as opposed to putting artificial caps on things?Sanjay</blockquote>