"And that's a perfectly valid way to think of it," Roy said. It was a very straight-laced way of thinking about it as well, and certainly not good for any rules jokes, but that was neither here nor there. "But is knowing you are generally stronger than one person or weaker than another meaningfully different from recognizing you have a +2 Strength modifier? Is estimating your best chance to strike and deal damage, an ability that increases as you gain experience, really functionally different than saying your base attack bonus increases as you advance in level?"