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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson Longinus" data-source="post: 8087689" data-attributes="member: 7025508">The thread is about ability scores. They have pretty clear descriptions.One huge downside of this sort of wild reinterpretation is that you lose the coherent framework for the rule-lore interfrace. Now if you houserule dexterity always to mean being lucky across the board then that is one thing. But if it can mean one thing at one moment for one character and something completely different for another, then the rules no longer have any connection to the lore. And when you have to decide what checks to call or how houserule an unexpected situation you no longer have the tools to do so. You can no longer think 'oh it would make sense that this test would be easier for agile characters, let's use dexterity check' because dexterity no lenger means being agile. One character's high dexterity means that they're really clumsy and lucky and another's that they are good at sticking to their diet and thus are not tempted to overindulgence on cotton candy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crimson Longinus, post: 8087689, member: 7025508"] The thread is about ability scores. They have pretty clear descriptions. One huge downside of this sort of wild reinterpretation is that you lose the coherent framework for the rule-lore interfrace. Now if you houserule dexterity always to mean being lucky across the board then that is one thing. But if it can mean one thing at one moment for one character and something completely different for another, then the rules no longer have any connection to the lore. And when you have to decide what checks to call or how houserule an unexpected situation you no longer have the tools to do so. You can no longer think 'oh it would make sense that this test would be easier for agile characters, let's use dexterity check' because dexterity no lenger means being agile. One character's high dexterity means that they're really clumsy and lucky and another's that they are good at sticking to their diet and thus are not tempted to overindulgence on cotton candy. [/QUOTE]

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