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<blockquote data-quote="The Choice" data-source="post: 6142041" data-attributes="member: 90669">I don't think the problem of the definition of ability scores can be solved by adding ability scores. The way I see it, we already have a problem with the fact that the scores themselves and the bonus they award are different; it's archaic, and a pointless barrier to entry, in my opinion. It's also made completely redundant because of skills. Why associate any ability score to perception? What about touch, wouldn't you be using Dexterity to feel around for a switch or something?Also, Willpower, Perception, and Sanity are either excedingly narrow focus abilities that kind of step on the feet of other, existing ability scores. In a game with no skills or a simpler ability score/skill relations, than those might get a chance to shine, but in D&amp;D as is (or will be, in the case of Next), they really don't have a place.Finally, Comeliness is problematic within the operating framework of D&amp;D : nobody cares how good you look like when you're slaying a dragon (also, every take on such an ability has always been a bit icky in my experience).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Choice, post: 6142041, member: 90669"] I don't think the problem of the definition of ability scores can be solved by [I]adding[/I] ability scores. The way I see it, we already have a problem with the fact that the scores themselves and the bonus they award are different; it's archaic, and a pointless barrier to entry, in my opinion. It's also made completely redundant because of skills. Why associate [I]any[/I] ability score to perception? What about touch, wouldn't you be using Dexterity to feel around for a switch or something? Also, Willpower, Perception, and Sanity are either [I]excedingly[/I] narrow focus abilities that kind of step on the feet of other, existing ability scores. In a game with no skills or a simpler ability score/skill relations, than those might get a chance to shine, but in D&D as is (or will be, in the case of Next), they really don't have a place. Finally, Comeliness is problematic within the operating framework of D&D : nobody cares how good you look like when you're slaying a dragon (also, every take on such an ability has always been a bit icky in my experience). [/QUOTE]

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