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If you're the one running the game, then yes it is? If they want a tortle heavy world, time for them to DM. (Doesn't seem complicated...
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Assuming he can. Its not like most random methods are constrained enough they won't produce outliers point buy or an array won't have...
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Identical numbers won't. But the chances you'll get identical numbers with random roll is extremely unlikely.
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Of course they could roll the same numbers. That's highly unlikely though. Meanwhile two people in a group that is rolling are also not...
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There were pages and pages where DMs asked those questions and did not get an answer.
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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...
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Balance is relative to other characters at the table, not in isolation.
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It means that there's no randomness to the character creation process. We chose our stats, our species, backgrounds, class. Why...
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I saw Jurassic World and Hollywood is never wrong about these things. It's their job to be as faithful and accurate to reality as...
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I take offense to this ;)
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Yeah, I have never hit this in real life, much less the vehement assertions that if I don't allow every species under the sun that...
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A PC who looks like a tortle apparently only works if they actually are a tortle for some people.
Jan 5, 2026
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Actually, I think it suggests that people in real life are more reasonable than people posting on a forum. I've never met a person so...
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This is a tortle. This is a tortle. This is a tortle. This is a tortle. All of those are not a compromise on "A tortle as it is in...
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This. "A PC who looks like a tortle doesn't work, but you can be X" is the beginning of the conversation. It's generally followed up...
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