wallawallawingwang posted:

My personal solution to still wanting ability scores, but wanting characters to be good at things besides whatever their fighting stat is, is to just have stats like "Shooting" and "Fighting" in addition to the normal ones. Why is this guy good at fighting, that's up to you! He could be strong, or quick, or have years of experience; your normal ability scores or your fluff can tell you the specifics as to why. Wizened unarmed guy can have a high wisdom, or dexterity, or hell strength even, all that would matter is that he's got lots of "Fighting" that is what makes him good at fighting in melee. But that does add stuff. And each time you add stuff to a project like this it tends to become a little more unwieldy. Another option might be to alter the math such that your attack mod is 1/2 level + enhancement + feats and such, and then just leave out ability scores from the to hit and damage portions of powers. Maybe give powers riders based on your ability mods to create class subtypes and differentiation.