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Reply: General Role-Playing:: Re: QOTD OCT 16: Playing AD&D in the 80's, Charisma was the dump stat because a low or high stat didn't mean anything. What interesting ways has your system/homebrew used to beef up a dump stat?
Posted: Sat, 17 Oct 04:05:32
I don't love how they do saves in 5e. I mush prefer in 4e (or 3.5e) where you have a few types of saves and each can be one of a couple different stats.
From a character perspective I like not being good at everything. I like my numbers representing "wow this person sucks at negotiating" or "wow they're physically very weak"- but I don't like when that makes them unplayable.
If my character is dumb (because dumping int is amusing to me on occasion), that means they're more susceptable to spells that attack that- which is fine. What I don't like is in 5e that means "int save, okay, you lose your turn!" (This is mostly an issue with int-save things specifically, but many save spells/abilities can just remove player agency, and trying to have all-round decent saves just so you can play the game is lame).
Posted: Sat, 17 Oct 04:05:32
SeaofStars wrote:
I think D&D 5 has done a fairy good job of not having statistics that you can totally ignore, having spells that can target various states make it dangerous to totally neglect any of them.
I don't love how they do saves in 5e. I mush prefer in 4e (or 3.5e) where you have a few types of saves and each can be one of a couple different stats.
From a character perspective I like not being good at everything. I like my numbers representing "wow this person sucks at negotiating" or "wow they're physically very weak"- but I don't like when that makes them unplayable.
If my character is dumb (because dumping int is amusing to me on occasion), that means they're more susceptable to spells that attack that- which is fine. What I don't like is in 5e that means "int save, okay, you lose your turn!" (This is mostly an issue with int-save things specifically, but many save spells/abilities can just remove player agency, and trying to have all-round decent saves just so you can play the game is lame).
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Posted: Sat, 17 Oct 02:22:00
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by lgoldberg
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