Nonlethal Force
First Post
I like point buy, specifically of the 32 point variety.
I used to use a system that intentionally ignored weighting higher scores. It was basically a sum totaly of your ability scores. Somethng along the lines of "add up all your ability scores and they should equal 80 (before racial mods are applied)" The players really seemed to enjoy that system as well. Till someone always tried to intentionally break it, come up with a player with CHA 3 so the rest of the scores would be uber, and I'd get tired of finding creative ways of making his character useless in combat anyway by ability score reduction ... so I added rule that all scores must be at least 8. But at that rate I just figured that it was easier to do point-buy. So that's what I do all the time now.
I used to use a system that intentionally ignored weighting higher scores. It was basically a sum totaly of your ability scores. Somethng along the lines of "add up all your ability scores and they should equal 80 (before racial mods are applied)" The players really seemed to enjoy that system as well. Till someone always tried to intentionally break it, come up with a player with CHA 3 so the rest of the scores would be uber, and I'd get tired of finding creative ways of making his character useless in combat anyway by ability score reduction ... so I added rule that all scores must be at least 8. But at that rate I just figured that it was easier to do point-buy. So that's what I do all the time now.