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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9824062" data-attributes="member: 29398">Exactly.  A stat of 3 indicates a character is above the movement-incapable or ventilator-required threshold but only by the slightest amount.  Lose one more point on that stat and into the care home you go, because that's what you need.  Lose a couple more and get down to 0 and you're either dead or a complete vegetable.Which is to say, the difference between a 2 and a 3 should be only a bit more than the difference between a 3 and a 4.  I'm fine with treating the mushy middle 9-12 range as being pretty much the same, but the degree of difference between stat points gets higher the farther away from that mushy middle you get. This is where 3-4-5e all get it completely wrong with their inane persistence on applying linear bonuses to bell-curve stats.So what this really seems to say is that a 3 for an adventurer translates to maybe a 7 across the general populace.  When one is trying to have the PCs be directly representative of the population(s) from which they come - which for me is a non-negotiable baseline unless the PCs are specifically alien to the world they are on - that just doesn't work.</blockquote>