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<blockquote data-quote="Spatula" data-source="post: 4176651" data-attributes="member: 2198">...ok?&nbsp; Where did WotC's gaming police enter into the dump stat discussion?Sure, and that makes more kinds of wizards mechanically viable.&nbsp; Any player wanting to maximize the effectiveness of their wizard in 3e would put their best score into Int and the two next-best into Con and Dex.&nbsp; The result is nearly every wizard in the game is hardy and quick - creating a character like Raistlin (low Con, average? Dex) would be potentially suicidal.&nbsp; But if only Int is truly important, then you're free to arrange your other stats to fit the concept and not feel like an idiot for doing so.&nbsp; A low-Con mage will still suffer for having fewer healing surges, but your hit point total won't be crippled.&nbsp; A clumsy mage can still have a decent AC.&nbsp; And so on.&nbsp; Whether you suffer for your dump stats (or reap some benefit from a high non-critical stat) is up to the situations the DM places you in.&nbsp; A low-Dex character is still going to have trouble sneaking past guards, for example.It encourages character variety, which is a good thing IMO.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Spatula, post: 4176651, member: 2198"] ...ok? Where did WotC's gaming police enter into the dump stat discussion? Sure, and that makes more kinds of wizards mechanically viable. Any player wanting to maximize the effectiveness of their wizard in 3e would put their best score into Int and the two next-best into Con and Dex. The result is nearly every wizard in the game is hardy and quick - creating a character like Raistlin (low Con, average? Dex) would be potentially suicidal. But if only Int is truly important, then you're free to arrange your other stats to fit the concept and not feel like an idiot for doing so. A low-Con mage will still suffer for having fewer healing surges, but your hit point total won't be crippled. A clumsy mage can still have a decent AC. And so on. Whether you suffer for your dump stats (or reap some benefit from a high non-critical stat) is up to the situations the DM places you in. A low-Dex character is still going to have trouble sneaking past guards, for example. It encourages character variety, which is a good thing IMO. [/QUOTE]

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