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<blockquote data-quote="Argyle King" data-source="post: 9315315" data-attributes="member: 58416">If it were up to me, Charisma wouldn't be an ability score.It's something you could pick up via feats, features, backgrounds, or something else; but it wouldn't be an ability score. However, implementation of that would radically change how D&amp;D works. If I could reduce the amount of ability scores to 5, I would keep the following:STRDEX*INTWISCON*Initiative would no longer be based on Dex. Instead, it would be derived from various things that are not directly connected to ability scores. I would have knowing how to perform spellcasting be linked to mental ability, learned skills, or a combination of both. At the same time, the capacity to perform spellcasting would have some link to physical stats, because channeling cosmic energy through a body is taxing. Spell components, holy symbols, inborn bloodline abilities, spell foci, pacts with otherworldly entities, studying knowledge(arcana), casting as a ritual*, casting as a group*, and a variety of other methods could/would allow some ability to push through normal limits of a body.**There may be some higher level spells that I would have require one or both of these to safely cast. Trying to cast them without those things would still be possible but come with a lot of risk.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Argyle King, post: 9315315, member: 58416"] If it were up to me, Charisma wouldn't be an ability score. It's something you could pick up via feats, features, backgrounds, or something else; but it wouldn't be an ability score. However, implementation of that would radically change how D&D works. If I could reduce the amount of ability scores to 5, I would keep the following: STR DEX* INT WIS CON *Initiative would no longer be based on Dex. Instead, it would be derived from various things that are not directly connected to ability scores. I would have knowing how to perform spellcasting be linked to mental ability, learned skills, or a combination of both. At the same time, the capacity to perform spellcasting would have some link to physical stats, because channeling cosmic energy through a body is taxing. Spell components, holy symbols, inborn bloodline abilities, spell foci, pacts with otherworldly entities, studying knowledge(arcana), casting as a ritual*[I], casting as a group*[/I], and a variety of other methods could/would allow some ability to push through normal limits of a body. **There may be some higher level spells that I would have require one or both of these to safely cast. Trying to cast them without those things would still be possible but come with a lot of risk. [/QUOTE]

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