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In this update:

• Personal dump stats
• More Community Copies
• Gnoll Language and Gibbering Snouter Sound Effect
• When's the last time you entered a dungeon in D&D?

What’s your dump stat?

In early editions of D&D, Strength was by far the most important stat, and Charisma was nearly useless except for hirelings if you had troops on the battlefield. In 5e, Charisma may be the most important ability. Not only do several spellcasting classes use it, but 5e has a greater focus on roleplaying, and Charisma is critical for most of those situations unless you get creative.

Meanwhile, even most martial classes don’t need Strength, since finesse weapons allow you to use Dexterity, which is already valuable for Initiative and Armor Class. Strength becomes the “dump stat,” the neglected ability that gets the least points.

Times have changed, and the most valuable abilities change with the times.

The same goes for real life. Even though popular media and advertising conditions us to focus on 6-pack abs (which are not healthy) and being thin enough to sit comfortably in a coach airplane seat, unless you do a lot of hands-on construction or repair work or need to do a lot of lifting for various reasons, Strength above a healthy fitness level is only cosmetically valuable in most 21st Century cultures. Yet we somehow still elevate that ability as an ideal.

At the same time, we need people with all kinds of abilities. In my home, even though Strength isn’t the stat that most people would equate me with, I’m the go-to person for opening jars and hauling boxes. Because of my ADHD, I depend on my wife for Wisdom (Perception). And everyone in our family knows that Dexterity is my real-life dump stat.

But when we work together, those dump stats don’t matter. Sure, I have to take extra time cleaning up everything that I spill, but we either compensate for each other or develop systems (like getting up early to allow extra time to get the kids ready for school or the daily reminders that broadcast all day long from our Alexa device because of my memory) to compensate the same way a fighter wears armor to compensate for a low Dexterity score.

So what’s your dump stat? It doesn’t matter as long as you or someone else with you has a way to compensate.

So roll initiative. I’ll probably end up going after you, but that just means that I have your back.

Community Copies

Thanks to our Patreon members and other donations, we were able to make 25 copies of the Limitless Heroics Coloring Book and 10 copies of Limitless Heroics to our Community Copies program, a total of $525 worth of products!

If you would like a copy and can't afford one, or if you can support this program, follow the appropriate link below!

Since my home group is facing a rising gnoll incursion, I developed and posted the gnoll language to the Lair. They also fought a gibbering snouter, a gibbering mouther made of gnolls. I used that language to create a sound file of overlapping voices speaking their language. It’s available to patrons under the gibbering mouther entry in the Lair. (You can hear a preview in the upcoming episode of Gaining Advantage — subscribe so you don’t miss it!)

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Thanks for your support!

Dale