Not sure if this is a bug or a feature... It appears that the 'other modifier' is applying after the max-20 limiter rather than simply including it in the total.
At third level, I have a CHA of 18, which is Base 17, Racial +2, and Other Modifier -1. At 4th I've taken both points into CHA, so it should be 17+2+2-1 = 20, however it's coming out as 19. I think it's because it's applying the upper limit of 20 *before* applying the other modifier, rather than adding all components up *then* limiting it to 20.
Is this working as intended, or is it just an edge case? It could be that I'm using the modifier for the wrong purpose - namely, that the DM allowed us to swap a point between two ability scores at character creation, so I just used the modifiers rather than re-enter the values. If it is working as intended, then maybe there could be something in the UI to indicate where this is happening as it took me forever to figure out what it was doing! :)
It's doing something wrong -- I just gave this character a base WIS of 17, +1 from racial features, a -1 'other modifier,' and was able to give her 3 ASIs (+6). It reads as a score of 19, and the builder shouldn't have even let me pick Wisdom as my ASI for those last 3 dropdowns.
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Not sure if this is a bug or a feature... It appears that the 'other modifier' is applying after the max-20 limiter rather than simply including it in the total.
At third level, I have a CHA of 18, which is Base 17, Racial +2, and Other Modifier -1. At 4th I've taken both points into CHA, so it should be 17+2+2-1 = 20, however it's coming out as 19. I think it's because it's applying the upper limit of 20 *before* applying the other modifier, rather than adding all components up *then* limiting it to 20.
Is this working as intended, or is it just an edge case? It could be that I'm using the modifier for the wrong purpose - namely, that the DM allowed us to swap a point between two ability scores at character creation, so I just used the modifiers rather than re-enter the values. If it is working as intended, then maybe there could be something in the UI to indicate where this is happening as it took me forever to figure out what it was doing! :)
Before and after images: https://ibb.co/CnKjp4P
It's doing something wrong -- I just gave this character a base WIS of 17, +1 from racial features, a -1 'other modifier,' and was able to give her 3 ASIs (+6). It reads as a score of 19, and the builder shouldn't have even let me pick Wisdom as my ASI for those last 3 dropdowns.
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