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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Ability scores have been removed" YES! FINALLY!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Except now we've lost the ability to slowly invest in attributes over 18. Not good imo, and having ability scores didn't raise problems

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Paizo originally wanted to get rid of ability scores and just use modifiers with 2nd Edition, but they were afraid of a D&D 4th Edition schism happening and didn't make the change when they were releasing it. Now they have the perfect opportunity to make the shift without angering the playerbase.

What I have heard is that they haven't quite finished working out how the change from attributes to modifiers will be implemented, but it is something being handled with the official changes of the remaster. What they have said so far is that we will still have the ability to raise ability modifiers above 18, we just don't know how it will work yet.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If anything I think it'd be an improvement if the text just said "you can't raise an ability modifier over +4 until lv10, and over +5 until lv20." It'd free up an ability boost at levels 5 and 15 too, which would be nice for more MAD builds.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

There will still be the ability to do this, I don't know the exact mechanic, but it was asked and answered when Paizo was doing their Livestreams regarding the remaster

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Instead of gaining +1 ability point, could just gain +0.5 modifier, with fractions rounding down on rolls. That would require that people spend two of them in the same ability to see a mechanical benefit though.