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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6291024" data-attributes="member: 1465">I think the proposed system is ok, although at the same time I don't think it's significantly better than the current system. In both cases, the bonuses are so small, that are hardly noticeable, when you consider that the ability scores generation methods are generous and flexible. Nobody is ever going to notice that -1, and you'll notice the +1 only in the limit case when someone rolled an 18 and it is increased to 19, but wait until level 4 (or 8) and it caps at 20 anyway.I don't think +1 worsen min-maxing compared to +2. Intuitively, I think the smaller the bonus, the less important it is to get it. In 3e it felt quite important for a lot of players to pick the race which boosted your most important score, not only because +2 always meant something, but also because having no cap, that +2 would stay forever compared to not having it. At the same time in 3e it was important to avoid races with -2 in your most important score, at all costs especially for casters. This sucked, because a lot of players actually want to play a race because of the narrative, not because it is more convenient, but had to take significant penalties.---I do think that the feeling is important for world building, so if Elves are supposed to be graceful and Dwarves are supposed to be stout, a +1 Dex and +1 Con respectively delivers the feeling that the rules are consistent with the narrative (which is why I hate the current Humans). However, it has to be noted that if the cap is 20 for everyone, then those +1 become only a matter of statistics, i.e. "there are more higher-Dex elves than dwarves". Still, the highest-Dex elf in the world is as dextrous as the highest-Dex dwarf in the world. At which point, if it's only a matter of statistics but not of absolute peaks, we could eliminate all bonuses and just say that most elves have high Dex. Most players would anyway put a fairly high score in Dex when playing an elf.(But I would be in favor of using different caps for different races)</blockquote>

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