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=== The Problem ===

The motivation behind typing DnD bonuses is quite a sensible one - it is designed to avoid things stacking onto each other into infinity and completely anally-destroying any semblance of the RNG. However, unfortunately, the number of bonus types so created is so large that they actually fail to achieve this result at all, instead acting as a ''licence'' for RNG-rape. 

To make matters worse, these bonus types have loose (if not outrightly ''no'') definitions of what they can (and more importantly, ''can't'') apply to. This leads to people doing stuff like putting insight bonuses on armour and luck bonuses on saves, which just makes for even more number inflation and dumpster-diving. The result of this is that people end up falling off the RNG, or in some cases, have to struggle to get meaningful numbers with dumpster-diving and searching for stackable options.

Part of the solution for this is, of course, not to make such a thing a necessity.
Author	Ghostwheel +
Identifier	3.5e Variant Rule +
Rating	Undiscussed +
Title	Standardized Bonus Types +