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if i had a choice i would rather try to find a method that expands the options provided by the balanced method rather than going into gambling my stats for variety.

i personally thing gnomes ought to be shifted more towards an identity of like, lesser elemental slash proto land druid, them being these magical spirits with a connection to their land who tend and take care of it.

okay that is a very nice analysis of gnomes you linked.

yeah it kinda sucks that small mechanics tend towards the negative rather than being a lateral movement that creates a different experience.

a question, when playing small species, do you ever find yourself wishing that their size category played more distinctly? rather than functionally being the same as a medium creature most of the time? not saying there aren't differences but, it's something that i feel you can end up forgetting...

ah yes, the 'small' species that isn't actually small. ;)

i think i recall that alot of the beastfolk-type species ended up having 'medium or small' in their size category, harengon, kenku, owlin, tortle, tabaxi for some examples, grung were exclusively small though i think, i would like to comment more on the thread topic but i haven't played at all...

i agree with the first part but IMO the latter doesn't really follow, that 3 is simply a low score, you had to pick somewhere to put it, but if you had a full array of 4's and had the option to drop one of them to a 3 to raise another to 5 then that 3 would be a dump stat.

for most classes, it's every fourth level, there are a few martial classes that get a few extra ones but not significantly more or which affect the placement of the rest of their ASI, so a 10th solo classed character will have two +2 ASI bumps (or feats), and it is specifically every fourth...

dice result meta-knowledge has never really been something that's quite sat right with me on certain kinds of checks, people like to claim they'd be able to tell, but how can you really be sure you did or didn't convince that guard?

the pure numerical stat value provided by standard array is 72, two numerical values for point buy are 69(15,15,15,8,8,8) and 75(13,13,13,12,12,12), (and there's probably not going to be that much more point variance beyond those two if i haven't picked the absolute ends of the scale), a range...

you're missing the actual issue, the problem is not 'a player shows up with two identical stat arrays, generated by different methods' the problem is, well there's actually two variations on it, the first is: 'two players generate their stat arrays by different methods, one ends up with an array...

Genuine question for someone who’s better at maths than me please? What approximate percentage of 4d6k3 results are costed higher than its possible to achieve with point buy? Though I recognise this may be a bit of a rabbithole mathematically Edit: PB and standard array are fairly close in...

it's not perfect, cause SAD and MAD classes exist but that's a factor that's less to do with the generation itself, but 'balanced' means to me for the players to be able to use any stat generation method and have equal odds to create characters of equal 'numerically statistical' power

i like the high/wood/dark trio thematically but wish they were more based in their magical capabilities (and consistent in those capabilities throughout) i'd take the weapon proficiency from wood elves in favour of giving them some druidic spells, astral elves in place of high elves and rework...

agreed, i mean i can appreciate the desire behind the goal but yeah, especially for a first time GM that's going to be a very tall order of reworking the system.

most likely because there is no magic system in One Piece like there is in DnD and they said they were trying to create a setting accurate campaign,

i don't especially think metamagic by itself feels wizardy, but i do think we could delete wizard and recreate 90% of their experience with a sorcerer subclass that has a spellbook, innate ritual casting and that memorize spell feature they got that lets them swap a spell from their spellbook on...

i really wish the sorcerer somehow gave you the option of permanently assigning some metamagic points to your cantrips and as you level up even some of your 1st, 2nd and 3rd level spells.

sure, but i mean an actual, codified, morale system for it to interface with, rather than it being left to GMs to each individually decide off the cuff who can be intimidated and how hard it would be, give it some consistency across the board.