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CreamCloud0 reacted to prabe's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with
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None of this is really about stat generation, though. It's all about expectations and experiences and preferences. -
CreamCloud0 reacted to prabe's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
If the people with the better stats are frustrated, and the people with the worse stats are frustrated, how can it not be worse...
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CreamCloud0 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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CreamCloud0 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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CreamCloud0 reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
To me, the argument for rolling falls down because there’s no positive argument that having 2 players with characters with a wide...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
If disparity in stats is going to be a major concern, and you actually care about having that player in the game? Probably, yeah...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
Yes, but when you start asking, "Why, or why not?" broader contexts are places you can look for wisdom. Every hear of the "5 Whys"...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread D&D General Why does the Hunter subclass for the 2014 & 2024 Ranger not have bonus spells? with Like.
Nah Hunter and Beastmaster in D&D is magical. Problem is how much The issue is the core. Ranger is a core D&D class Ranger is a...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with Like.
Exactly. If a game isn't even fun to play in the first place, then balancing it isn't worth bothering about. If a game does contain...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
Kind of unfortunate that I had to vote for the first thing, because "a variant thereof" is such an enormous catch-all that it's hard to...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Lord Twig's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
I am firmly in the point buy camp. Any time I have played in a game where we rolled stats everyone ended up with stats well above what...
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CreamCloud0 replied to the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats?.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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CreamCloud0 reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with
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They don't have to be equal IME but they have to have the chance of being equal. If the chance doesn't pay off this time, so be it... -
CreamCloud0 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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CreamCloud0 replied to the thread D&D General Why does the Hunter subclass for the 2014 & 2024 Ranger not have bonus spells?.okay but how many scents does the hunter have on you?