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Crimson Longinus reacted to CreamCloud0's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with
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i'd rather they made all classes some form of MAD, especially if your choice of secondary stat could offer customization avenues, but... -
Crimson Longinus reacted to MostlyHarmless42's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
We use point buy at our table with 30 points instead of 27. Gives a slight boost without completely messing up the game.
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
"Life is sometimes crappy and unfair and so sometimes your RPG character should be too" is not a compelling argument for me. But there...
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Crimson Longinus 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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Crimson Longinus 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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Crimson Longinus 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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Crimson Longinus reacted to CreamCloud0's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
if i'm allowed to simply retire them any time i like whats the issue with retiring them straight away when i see their initial stats...
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Crimson Longinus 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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Crimson Longinus 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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Crimson Longinus 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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Crimson Longinus 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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Crimson Longinus reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
So, it may be useful to notice that it isn't just individual players, GMs, or tables that move away from rolled stats. If you look...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
Small clarification: then then entire table shouldn't roll stats.
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
Well those folks probably shouldn’t roll stats in the first place
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
Maybe speak for yourself on this one. There is more to collaborative games than just being present for group success. Perhaps you...