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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 4296016" data-attributes="member: 40961">Kudos to your DM for allowing the swap, but if you're going to have ability scores in a game do things, then you have to pick what they do.  And that means choosing to have some ability scores NOT do certain things.  You like swapping int for dex, but if the game were designed your way, I might not like it and I might write a message like yours and ask my DM to let me swap dex for int.  And if everyone just chooses their best ability score and makes up a story for why it makes sense, it wrecks the whole point.So, I'm glad you are happy with the outcome you got with your DM, but you haven't been straightjacketed in any unreasonable manner.  Somewhere the game designers had to decide what stat to have affect things like swiftness in combat, and they picked dex.  They had to pick something.</blockquote>