Recent content by AlViking

For the whole 3 minutes it take to roll stats? When I hope to play the character for a year or more? I think it's worth skipping the "excitement" of rolling. :)

I'd probably name them Kenny given how some DMs (supposedly) don't allow character "suicide" and would just keep bringing them back from the dead.

Yep. I could make a decent character out of any of these, although I'd still want to choose placement. The last one in the list of 3 15s and 3 8s isn't that far off of my barbarian. :) It would be interesting to know if those people who don't like "cookie cutter" characters or who want to be...

Every possible option? Here you go ...

The player did ask to use point buy both before they rolled and after they rolled poorly. The DM laughed and said no because "We all roll so it's fair". Which to be honest I think is totally BS. Even if they had used point buy they still would have been behind the curve of the person that...

Assume for a moment you and your buddy get a new job. You're working together, get part of the profits the business makes as a bonus you find that you're both equally capable of doing the job. But your buddy? They get showered in praise by the boss, get better hours, better pay, they get...

I mentioned somewhere that our very first 5e campaign we used the heroic point buy from 3e for our stats and we decided it was a mistake, both for the players and the DM. Our stats were just too high and personally I didn't like feeling like I was a Marty Stu. From the DM side of things it...

I would choose A every time. To be honest they'd feel a little OP to me though.

I've seen games where one person had very high scores across the board and another's were pretty abysmal. You may not care, but to the person with the low scores they never felt like they could ever contribute as much to the team. Being in the shadow of another character made the game less...

According to this post - the odds of rolling a 3 without 4d6 drop lowest is .1%. One in a thousand isn't that frequent, right? But then you realize that you're rolling 6 times for each character it's 1 in 167 characters should in theory have a 3. Have a table of 6 people? Suddenly it's 1 in 28...

Normally I wouldn't care but there are already two other threads on rolling, can we not derail this one?

What's your goal with the character? What's the campaign like? If I wanted a true jack of all trades bard, it might not be a bad start. If RP and having a wide variety of skills is important, it might work well. I played a rogue that started with a 14 dex, I had fun with it because I knew...

I view the range of 3-18 as the spectrum of humanity barring disease or accident. An example that is hopefully not offensive is height. The tallest people ever had a disease meaning they never stopped growing so if they were measured on a scale of 3-18 they'd be higher than an 18, although...

Acknowledging that different people have different capabilities is not a judgement of their worth as a person. But I also acknowledge that given my height and general aptitude I will never be a basketball player. I apologize, I did not mean to offend. One of the reasons I don't like rolling...

For those who think a 3 doesn't really matter, what do you think it represents? Because to me it represents the spectrum of human capabilities. Some people are simply far more or less intelligent than others. That doesn't change their value as individuals and there's no way to measure it...