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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreatLemur" data-source="post: 3969405" data-attributes="member: 28553">Damn, what is with all these people replying without even reading the first damn post?  Come on, folks.  It's three sentences long and completely clear.Personally, I strongly believe there is no goddamned point in using both scores and modifiers if only the modifiers ever actually do anything.  The fact that ability scores are actually addressed when feat prerequisites and ability damage comes up ain't all that meaningful, since the same mechanical effects can be achieved using ability modifiers instead.I do think Kamikaze Midget has a point about working with scores giving such effects a greater continuum to work with, but it really is a false granularity, since only every other point actually matters.  There's some really immersion-breaking absurdity in situations where the whole party suffers a -1 to Dexterity, and only the folks with even numbers in their Dex are meaningfully affected.And anybody who's taught new players knows knows that the whole score/modifier thing is just one more mental hurdle to deal with.  Not a big one, but players really need as few as possible during that process.Really, when you come down to it, it looks like the reason they're keeping the ancient 3-through-18 ability spread is tradition and nothing more.</blockquote>