Starting Ability Score Maximum

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#1

AttilathePun

Sep 15, 2015 15:18:36

I'm having a bit of a brain fart, so please bear with me.  I could have sworn I remembered that 5e had changed starting ability scores so that you could only start with a max of 18 regardless of racial modifiers and had to increase it to get to 20.  Then today I went to create a character, and I can't find that rule anywhere in the PHB.  Am I making things up?  Am I remembering something from a playtest version that got cut for the final product?  Or does this rule actually exist somewhere and I just missed it?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  

#2

Tempest_Stormwind

Sep 15, 2015 15:23:13

AttilathePun wrote:
#3

Loswaith

Sep 15, 2015 19:43:37

However if you arent rolling and using purchase points the highest base stat you can purchase is a 15, thus 17-18 typicaly would be the cap (you cant reach 20 atleast from PHB races).  It may be a simple confusion due to that.