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Lakesidefantasy reacted to KYRON45's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with
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This sounds like a conversation about math. I'm out!!! :eek: -
Lakesidefantasy replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?.I've started comparing 27 point buy arrays by analyzing how they impact Skills. It might be hard to extrapolate the effectiveness of an...
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Lakesidefantasy reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with Like.
I feel like the fact that classes aren't balanced, races aren't balanced, spells aren't balanced, even the individual results on a d20...
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Lakesidefantasy reacted to jmartkdr2's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with Like.
Even with point buy, I find most people go with standard array or something very close to it. Rolling does technically average out to...
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Lakesidefantasy replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?.Yeah, that's fair. What could we say? How about this, "Is Point Buy Balanced?"
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Lakesidefantasy replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?.Yeah, the Standard Array is a Point Buy set of scores.
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Lakesidefantasy reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with Like.
I think others have pretty thoroughly covered that this is a really weird metric for balance, so rather than harping on that point...
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Lakesidefantasy reacted to Mephista's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with Like.
At some point, we need to set a baseline. Now, no ability generation is going to be balanced. This isn't point buy's faults, but the...
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Lakesidefantasy reacted to payn's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with Like.
“Totally” as in all possibilities equally effective? No.
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Lakesidefantasy reacted to jmartkdr2's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with Like.
I find this a weird question, because I don't think it follows the intent of point buy. Not all possible combinations are equally good...
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Lakesidefantasy reacted to aco175's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with Like.
Some broad generalizations. What I might consider effective or balanced is another persons weaksauce or overpowered. In another thread...
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Is Point Buy Balanced? I'm not asking if Point Buy is more balanced?, but rather, is it totally balanced? There are over 54,000°...
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Lakesidefantasy replied to the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats?.I think that is "advance to level 3" rather than "Option 3". So they created 1st level characters with either Option 1 or Option 2. It...
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Lakesidefantasy replied to the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats?.Look at all that fun!
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Lakesidefantasy replied to the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats?.Well that's just it, if you don't like what you rolled you can choose Point Buy instead. But yes, you get one chance at rolling.