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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8011094" data-attributes="member: 6704184">If ability scores didn’t govern basic efficacy in combat, a rather large part of the game, I’d be more in favor of ability scores = skills.I may, as I’ve mentioned, just decouple ability scores from attack, ac, and save dc, values. The problem there is a lack of variance. In my own game, your skills progress rank by rank, and everything that requires rolls is governed by skills, so there is variance there. I don’t love the idea of everyone having the same attack number, for instance.OTOH, there is the idea of simply having a character choose a Spellcasting stat and a weapons stat, and using that regardless of class. My rogue would, then, just be a Dex/Int character, regardless of secondary class.Or, shrink stats down to 3, and Mind or Will or whatever governs all spellcasting, and Body governs all weapons use, while a third stat combines con and parts of wisdom and Cha to govern some skills and your hardiness.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 8011094, member: 6704184"] If ability scores didn’t govern basic efficacy in combat, a rather large part of the game, I’d be more in favor of ability scores = skills. I may, as I’ve mentioned, just decouple ability scores from attack, ac, and save dc, values. The problem there is a lack of variance. In my own game, your skills progress rank by rank, and everything that requires rolls is governed by skills, so there is variance there. I don’t love the idea of everyone having the same attack number, for instance. OTOH, there is the idea of simply having a character choose a Spellcasting stat and a weapons stat, and using that regardless of class. My rogue would, then, just be a Dex/Int character, regardless of secondary class. Or, shrink stats down to 3, and Mind or Will or whatever governs all spellcasting, and Body governs all weapons use, while a third stat combines con and parts of wisdom and Cha to govern some skills and your hardiness. [/QUOTE]

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