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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 9159562" data-attributes="member: 63">The stats should be:AwarenessBrawnCunningDaringEducationFancinessGritHealthInitiativeJusticeKillingWe are making a Cowboy game, right?---Or more seriously, if I were in charge of D&D, I'd keep the 6 scores, since the 6 scores are sacred cows -- but they're kinda dumb sacred cows. Like, I want to be able to make a skilled knife-fighter without also being an Olympic gymnast. Or I want to have a cleric of the god of storms who is not, y'know, full of little nuggets of wisdom; he's just full of righteous fury. I want an option to make a paladin who is really good at smiting, but not very persuasive. Stuff like that.So I'd try to divorce combat from ability scores.Like, Strength can still affect what kind of weapons and armor you can use, but I wouldn't have it affect attack rolls. Arnold Schwarzenegger is not a better swordfighter than a wiry old dude who's been doing kenjutsu for 40 years. Ditto Dexterity. Simone Biles ain't necessarily good at archery. Ditto save DCs being modified by Int/Wis/Cha for spellcasters. Just set the numbers to fair amounts, and rely on tactics to provide bonuses. I much prefer when choices during the game session matter more than choices made during character creation.And now that we're getting rid of combat being modified by ability scores, we can reduce the importance of ability scores. So there's no need to 'increase ability scores.' Just have what you have, though maybe make it an option during gameplay to spend some character-building resources to get better at one or the other.Like, feel free to give elves +1 to attack rolls with bows, but not a bonus to Dexterity.And if a PC starts off rude by wants to have a glow-up by going to charm school or whatever, cool, let them do something to increase their Charisma, and now you don't have to worry about every sorcerer in every game wanting to go to charm school to improve their save DCs.</blockquote>

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