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<blockquote data-quote="Scribe" data-source="post: 8184933" data-attributes="member: 6807152"><p>I mean at their most basic, they are abstractions that provide modifiers that allow for the scaling of encounters and provide a sense of 'growth' over time while impacting the most basic functions of your chosen class.</p><p></p><p>I know it was probably a rhetorical question, but that is fundamentally the issue.</p><p></p><p>Class X is driven primarily (in some cases entirely) by a given Attribute. The game is built in such a way that for optimization or min/max purposes getting that Attribute as high as possible has very meaningful impacts over time.</p><p></p><p>It would be likely extremely complex to (aka full rewrite) to rip all of that crunch out of the game, and people would probably recoil anyway if we are being honest with eachother.</p><p></p><p>If you COULD just strip it out and put it into feats, then you are not fixing the issue, you just are moving it to a different point.</p><p></p><p>Racial ASI ~= Racial Feats.</p><p></p><p>They would still be tied to race, and so for some (me) thats fine, for others thats unacceptable, even seemingly as an OPTION.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scribe, post: 8184933, member: 6807152"] I mean at their most basic, they are abstractions that provide modifiers that allow for the scaling of encounters and provide a sense of 'growth' over time while impacting the most basic functions of your chosen class. I know it was probably a rhetorical question, but that is fundamentally the issue. Class X is driven primarily (in some cases entirely) by a given Attribute. The game is built in such a way that for optimization or min/max purposes getting that Attribute as high as possible has very meaningful impacts over time. It would be likely extremely complex to (aka full rewrite) to rip all of that crunch out of the game, and people would probably recoil anyway if we are being honest with eachother. If you COULD just strip it out and put it into feats, then you are not fixing the issue, you just are moving it to a different point. Racial ASI ~= Racial Feats. They would still be tied to race, and so for some (me) thats fine, for others thats unacceptable, even seemingly as an OPTION. [/QUOTE]
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