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CreamCloud0 reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with
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The question I'd ask is, is that true of the attribute set as a set, or only regarding individual attributes? I mean, seriously it only... -
CreamCloud0 reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with Like.
I just said so. Like in that very post? The point-buy method is, in part, designed in order to approximately match the spread of using...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with Like.
If you have a house rule that says otherwise. But then you aren't really using 4d6dl. Point buy can't really compete with some...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Lakesidefantasy's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with Like.
Yes, because of Arrangement both the Standard method and Point Buy have the Dump Score problem. However, I would say that most Point Buy...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with Like.
I picked one simple metric because it was easy to calculate. In my scenario B is also better at everything outside of combat as well...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to DEFCON 1's post in the thread D&D General I Just Want To Teleport and Stab Things with Like.
Yeah, maybe next time you should actually do that... answer their question on how to do something... rather than nitpick their example...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with Like.
I just spent way to much time on building 2 characters in DndBeyond where "A" has 9, 7, 11, 4, 13, 10 and "B" has 9, 13, 13, 15, 15...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with Like.
I understand that's important to some people. But given they're going to not be arranged identically all the time, I don't find any...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with Like.
I never said they were equal - to do that you'd have to use the array. But that array will work better for some classes than others. I...
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CreamCloud0 replied to the thread D&D General A Way for Players to Roll Hidden Checks.dice result meta-knowledge has never really been something that's quite sat right with me on certain kinds of checks, people like to...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Hawk Diesel's post in the thread D&D General A Way for Players to Roll Hidden Checks with Like.
Sure, but I also imagine we've all taken tests that we were confident about and ended up getting a poor grade. Or for sure knew that...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Koloth's post in the thread D&D General A Way for Players to Roll Hidden Checks with Like.
Some VTTs allow the player to roll hidden where only the GM sees the result. Or both the GM and player but not the rest of the party...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Hawk Diesel's post in the thread D&D General A Way for Players to Roll Hidden Checks with Like.
Something I have previously struggled with as a DM is how to hide the success or failure of a check from the players. Obviously, there...
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CreamCloud0 replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?.the pure numerical stat value provided by standard array is 72, two numerical values for point buy are 69(15,15,15,8,8,8) and...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with Like.
The numbers are still going to give results that are reasonably close and balanced.