D&D 5E How Will You Be Generating Stats in 5E?

[Kobold Stew]

Player choice between 4d6drop lowest and point buy, but once you roll, them's your numbers.

 

[Jan van Leyden]

3d6 drop the highest, in order!

Now that makes for some really low stats: 12 as maximum and possibly as low as 2.

 

[heptat]

3d6 drop the highest, in order!

lulz

Or the array.

Player's choice.

mega lulz

Genius

I was thinking of trying straight 3d6...not sure how my players will feel

 

[delericho]

I'll be letting each player choose, though if they choose random roll then they have to roll in front of the group.

The first time out, char gen will be exactly as laid out in RAW - so no point buy of stats over 15, no rerolls on random rolls, etc. I feel I need to run the game at least once to see how it works as-is, before making any changes.

After that, my gut feeling is that I'll want to change some things. At which point I'll probably change all three systems:

1) Random rolls remain 4d6-drop-lowest, but you reroll if the net modifiers is +0 or less, or if your highest stat is 13 or lower.

2) The array changes to 16/15/13/12/10/8

3) Point buy will be expanded to allow stats up to 18. I haven't quite figured out how best to do this - it might be a straight-up expansion of the table, or I might switch to the costs from 3e (that I've been using for years). Either way, the number of points will be increased slightly.

All that said, it is my intention to be much less system-focussed this time around, and a corollary of that is that I'm not intending to worry anywhere near so much about getting a 'perfect' stat-gen method. After years of fiddling, I've more or less concluded that such a thing doesn't really exist.

 

[Sacrosanct]

Same as I've always done: 1e's UA method V

Just kidding. 4d6 drop the lowest. But I won't throw a fit if a player wants array

 

[Tony Vargas]

Just curious. What methods of stat generation do people plan to allow in their campaigns? Check all that apply.

I'm running for Encounters, so random is not an option. To save time and keep things fair & simple, I encourage players to use the array.

 

[Grazzt]

3d6, reroll 1s, any order. Most likely.

 

[Nikosandros]

I will use point buy, but I might tweak the number of points available.

 

[Plaguescarred]

We usually roll 4d6 drop lowest

 

[FJammet]

4d6 drop lowest for 4 stats, then point buy for the 2 remaining (taking into account the 4 previous rolls).