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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5812645" data-attributes="member: 58197">Inelegant - perhaps so. However, over-focusing on elegance can lead to a bland system in which everything feels like everything else. In fact, I think this was one of the problems with early 4E.I'm not saying elegance should never be a concern, but in general it should serve the larger goal of making the system easier to learn and/or play. I don't think &quot;all stats have an active use&quot; is particularly important in that regard. (I found it quite irritating when 4E tried to give Constitution an active use by shoehorning it in as the Infernolock's attack stat. Yeah, my character uses her healthiness to burn your face off. What, is my warlock pact with Jillian Michaels? I'm not saying Con can't be important for the Infernolock, but it should be used to resist nasty side effects, not for direct attack purposes.)Also, Constitution is useful in exploration as well as combat; anything that puts you in physical danger (falling off a cliff, springing a trap on yourself, being caught in a rockslide, etc.) brings in Constitution. A social encounter is the only situation where Con is really useless, and the same could be said of Str and Dex. Meanwhile, what good is Charisma in either combat or exploration?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 5812645, member: 58197"] Inelegant - perhaps so. However, over-focusing on elegance can lead to a bland system in which everything feels like everything else. In fact, I think this was one of the problems with early 4E. I'm not saying elegance should never be a concern, but in general it should serve the larger goal of making the system easier to learn and/or play. I don't think "all stats have an active use" is particularly important in that regard. (I found it quite irritating when 4E tried to give Constitution an active use by shoehorning it in as the Infernolock's attack stat. Yeah, my character uses her [I]healthiness[/I] to burn your face off. What, is my warlock pact with Jillian Michaels? I'm not saying Con can't be important for the Infernolock, but it should be used to resist nasty side effects, not for direct attack purposes.) Also, Constitution is useful in exploration as well as combat; anything that puts you in physical danger (falling off a cliff, springing a trap on yourself, being caught in a rockslide, etc.) brings in Constitution. A social encounter is the only situation where Con is really useless, and the same could be said of Str and Dex. Meanwhile, what good is Charisma in either combat or exploration? [/QUOTE]

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