You can't point to a single instance of my saying you have to do things my way or that my way is the only way, yet I can point to multiple instances of my saying point buy and arrays are okay. Not as realistic as rolling, but okay. Engaging in accusations that you know to be false does little to improve my opinion of you.
Alignment audit on [MENTION=6871450]Wulffolk[/MENTION] - - - this action brings you one step closer to Evil.I am just waiting for this thread to finally sputter off and die so that I can post a new thread on this exact same subject in a couple of weeks, once this thread falls far enough that somebody too lazy to scroll a little or do a search won't see it immediately.
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Many, many things have changed over the decades and D&D has evolved.
The proof that 3d6 is a good method to get average person ability scores is that people have decided that 3d6 is a good way of generating ability scores. Seems quite circular to me.
It also ignores common sense that 1 in 216 people would be as strong as humanly possible (barring special training). If that makes sense for your campaign, more power to you. It's obviously not true in the real world and would be ludicrous in most campaigns.
3d6 was never a good model for distribution of ability scores for the general population
Stating things like "It's much better than point buy" as fact instead of opinion reeks of one-true-wayism
Stating things like "It's much better than point buy" as fact instead of opinion reeks of one-true-wayism in my opinion. If you can't see that there's not much I can say.
True, but one of the many things that has not changed is the 3d6 bell curve model of the general population.
Not in the context of a debate, of course, but in the realm of propaganda, repetition is a powerful tool.Repeatedly stating something as fact does not make it so.
That the 3d6 bell curve still represents the general population? There are some facts consistent with it. Quite apart from it being the case in the classic game, and it never being replaced by anything else.Is there anything other than your statement to back this up?
Each of those things is relevant. And, again, focusing on the 'only' is missing the point. Law & Chaos are back as an independent axis in 5e. The Paladin in the SRD is the LG Paladin.I don't care what previous editions said or did not say, they are no more relevant to the current edition than the tradition of paladins only being lawful good or there only being alignments of Law and Chaos.
There may well be, in that metaphorical sense.. But there is no "holy text", there were no sacred stone tablets inscribed with the1510 commandments of The Great Gygax.
Where it made sense for their goals, which included fast combat and classic feel - and really, a number of other things that all boiled down to classic feel, as well...They pulled certain aspects of previous editions into the current edition where it made sense
Except it did, it just remains an option, rather than a default.. Rolling for ability scores for every NPC didn't make the cut.