The shitty part about that system is people want to be powerful so they make characters that usually fit within their class. Meaning dump stats. And suddenly the barbarian, with an int of a sapient rock, has an idea but cannot voice it in character because their char is “stupid”. The exact opposite for mages or bards - the bard is a “face” that talks to everyone for the checks. Worse yet with charisma checks - a dude that doesn’t know how to be as charismatic as a 20 stat bard, suddenly needs to be a smoothtalker (since charisma is treated differently in many tables, it’s not just “I try to distract the guard by talking at him”, it’s “I tell him XYZ”)
The shitty part about that system is people want to be powerful so they make characters that usually fit within their class. Meaning dump stats. And suddenly the barbarian, with an int of a sapient rock, has an idea but cannot voice it in character because their char is “stupid”. The exact opposite for mages or bards - the bard is a “face” that talks to everyone for the checks. Worse yet with charisma checks - a dude that doesn’t know how to be as charismatic as a 20 stat bard, suddenly needs to be a smoothtalker (since charisma is treated differently in many tables, it’s not just “I try to distract the guard by talking at him”, it’s “I tell him XYZ”)