Attribute crippling

plivey

My warlock is a tiefling from before mod 16 when you could choose your attributes. At the time, I was using dps, but now I want to shift to healing for soulweaver. I am left with an 8. Eight is no bueno. Is there not a way to change this up? The lack of flexibility for stats in the game is really short-sighted considering that, when you make a class change that depends on flexible attributes, it is not possible. Please make it swappable. I mean, ffs, why do you have to be so rigid in a game based on 5th ed, in which it's supposed to be easy and enjoyable??

ltsmithneko

Attributes were gutted n' are pretty minimal now~

autumnwitch

The powers that be decided that attributes in a D&D based game should have minimal importance.

zimxero

autumnwitch said:

The powers that be decided that attributes in a D&D based game should have minimal importance.

The rationale they gave at one point is... we don't want early mistakes & bad choices of new players to hamstring their character forever.

I personally re-interpret their rationale as... we want to minimize all the factors in the game that improve or diminish performance so that the game is easier to balance and control.

autumnwitch

zimxero#8085 said:

autumnwitch said:

The powers that be decided that attributes in a D&D based game should have minimal importance.

The rationale they gave at one point is... we don't want early mistakes & bad choices of new players to hamstring their character forever.

I personally re-interpret their rationale as... we want to minimize all the factors in the game that improve or diminish performance so that the game is easier to balance and control.

At this point they should just rebrand the game as Gauntlet and only offer pre-made cookie cutter characters and get it over with. That's where's it going.