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<blockquote data-quote="BASHMAN" data-source="post: 5315466" data-attributes="member: 8277">Perhaps, but what if I DON'T WANT to play a battlemind or a warthinker or a swordsoul or whatever other class they come up with next.&nbsp; I want to play a fighter, which benefits from his STR bonus.&nbsp; Before, I put my highest stat in STR and CON anyway.&nbsp; Now I'll do the same, and my STR will be 2 higher.Initially the explaination for DWT existing as a feat was a balance issue- so that Dwarves would be a good pick for Fighters despite their lack of STR bonus.&nbsp; They gave Eladrin the same thing w/ Swords and Spears for the same reason.&nbsp; This was of course BEFORE the feat that gives you +1 to hit was invented, and the one that lets you pick whatever stat you want as your base attack stat was invented.&nbsp; Had those feats been around back then, they may not have invented DWT, as dwarves would have just hit people with axes by looking tough with their high CON scores (which they can also still do, I suppose if they pick WIS instead of STR).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BASHMAN, post: 5315466, member: 8277"] Perhaps, but what if I DON'T WANT to play a battlemind or a warthinker or a swordsoul or whatever other class they come up with next. I want to play a fighter, which benefits from his STR bonus. Before, I put my highest stat in STR and CON anyway. Now I'll do the same, and my STR will be 2 higher. Initially the explaination for DWT existing as a feat was a balance issue- so that Dwarves would be a good pick for Fighters despite their lack of STR bonus. They gave Eladrin the same thing w/ Swords and Spears for the same reason. This was of course BEFORE the feat that gives you +1 to hit was invented, and the one that lets you pick whatever stat you want as your base attack stat was invented. Had those feats been around back then, they may not have invented DWT, as dwarves would have just hit people with axes by looking tough with their high CON scores (which they can also still do, I suppose if they pick WIS instead of STR). [/QUOTE]

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