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Yeah, the point really is that the random roll is less likely to get to a balanced result, not that there's some magical quality of the...

Ah, the "but Gandalf, the quintessential Wizard character that most fantasy fans know about, isn't a Wizard, but a Majar, so you...

Always a promising start. 🙄 Did i say i literally want to play nighrcrawler? No. I did not. i used him as an example. Pedantry is...

@CreamCloud0 already covered this, but I thought I'd throw my hat in the ring too. Your premise is flawed, by way of a fallacy of...

you're missing the actual issue, the problem is not 'a player shows up with two identical stat arrays, generated by different methods'...

Here's part of the disconnect. Individual stat sets are not balanced or unbalanced per se. They might be badly distributed, depending...

Genuine question for someone who’s better at maths than me please? What approximate percentage of 4d6k3 results are costed higher than...

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...

Identical numbers won't. But the chances you'll get identical numbers with random roll is extremely unlikely.

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...

Balance is relative to other characters at the table, not in isolation.

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...

It means that there's no randomness to the character creation process. We chose our stats, our species, backgrounds, class. Why...

I'm not really seeing why the weaker PCs should get a shot at opening a door when the "strongest PC" couldn't do it. Unless . . . a...

Because Humans are the explorer, the adventurer, the one pushing the frontiers and adaptable. The others? Archetypes, Tropes, too tied...