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Cadence reacted to payn's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with
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Cadence reacted to jmartkdr2's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
This is where my logic takes me - the risk may be very small, but there's no upside to rolling that can't be achieved other ways without...
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Cadence reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
I mean, I don’t have a problem if a specific player wants to opt-in to having a weakness. But a truly random methodology isn’t going to...
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Cadence reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
Inherent disparity makes those games MUCH worse if you aspire to be more than a spectator at the highest levels. You can argue that it...
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Cadence reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
What my students had a problem with was the obvious inequity built into the rules. It was like starting a soccer game where some players...
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Cadence reacted to Swarmkeeper's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
1. If they are frustrated it’s worse game experience. 2. If they signed up for something and then get frustrated when that something...
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Cadence reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
I just rolled up a character on DndBeyond. I got 9,9,8,15,9,16 (in that order). So 21 points if I were using 3e's version (Point Buy...
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Cadence reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
Sure, but I feel like that’s just recapitulating the argument that you can use other techniques to endure the disparity. But there’s...
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Cadence reacted to CreamCloud0's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
Sorry I don’t consider ‘well you MIGHT get better character stats next time’ to be adequate compensation for having bad stats right now...
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Cadence reacted to prabe's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
The campaigns I've run have been every-other week for 130+ sessions (so somewhere over five years) and PC deaths are rare. I figure A)...
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Cadence reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
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...
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Cadence reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
Yeah exactly. There's always been this odd judgemental streak where people, in what seems to me is a very false and fake way (but...
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Cadence reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
This is why, I’ll remind folks, when I use rolled stats I tell players that if they’re unhappy with their set of six, they can discard...
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Cadence reacted to prabe's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
This does a good job of summing up why I moved away from rolling for stats. It's not that the people who would have less fun if the dice...
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Cadence reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
My experience is that nice (i.e. almost all) adult players will always act like a rising tide lifts all ships, but on close observation...