Originally Posted by frequentic
Originally Posted by Syrek
There seem to be artificial restriction to the point buy mechanics in this game too. I tried to make a half-elf fighter a few sessions ago and I couldn't get her strength past 16. Dumped Int to 8, had 4 stat points free, no chance. 16 strength max.


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I haven't actually checked if they follow the point buy rules for 14 and 15 (2p cost per ability score increase) but that would be the system used by Larian. Abilities can't be lower that 8 and not higher than 15. The only way to get higher scores at character creation is to have a racial bonus in that stat, so the max is 17.

Thanks for clearing that up, I wasn't aware of that. My thinking was that stats above a certain threshold just cost more points but that "hard cap" is news to me.