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Message: <blockquote data-quote="molonel" data-source="post: 3451111" data-attributes="member: 10412">No. There are actually limits hardcoded into the game where you cannot accomplish certain actions without certain stats. If you are wielding a light mace, and your strength is 3, your damage is going to be 1d4-4. You cannot kill anything. You can heroically beat monsters about the head and shoulders all day long. It doesn't matter. You can't hurt anything.If your intelligence or wisdom is 9 or below, you cannot cast arcane or divine spells, respectively:<a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/theBasics.htm#abilityModifiers" target="_blank">http://www.d20srd.org/srd/theBasics.htm#abilityModifiers</a>Higher stats may increase your chances, but stats of least average are required to even try.Ergo, success is tied in part to your stats in a randomized system of this sort.You can softpitch your players, and tell them that they are fighting giants when you're using the stats for ogres. But there comes a mathematical breakoff point where good intentions are not enough. Roleplaying skill becomes irrelevant, and math takes over.Good planning and smart playing can help, but unless you are playing a diceless system, they can only do so much. D&D is not such a system.</blockquote>