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Lakesidefantasy replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?.🤓 Um, actually, the Commoner Array would be (10, 10, 10, 11, 11, 11). This is because the average of 3d6 is 10.5, with a point buy... -
Lakesidefantasy reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with
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Your example is effectively white room theory crafting, though. Folks just generally don't require people to play stats as bad as you... -
Lakesidefantasy reacted to CleverNickName's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with Like.
I wonder what it would be like to play a 5E D&D game where everyone starts with a 10 in every stat (plus racial bonuses), and you got an...
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Lakesidefantasy replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?.One way you can achieve lower variance is to roll more dice. I pushed this as far as I could get it with an absurd 15d2-12 method. I...
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Lakesidefantasy reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with Like.
To a point, I think. How much of it is depends on the difference between what a 13 does for you and a 14 (or even a 15). I'd say in...
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Lakesidefantasy replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?.You can avoid dump scores by randomly placing them, but I'm not advocating for that. I repeat, I'm not advocating for random placement...
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Lakesidefantasy replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?.Assigning scores leads directly to dump scores. Now those are some pretty high scores with an overall bonus of 15 so I'll admit it...
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Lakesidefantasy replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?.Yes, this is true. I don't know about the 50th Anniversary edition, but the 5th edition leaves us with three methods that all encourage...
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Lakesidefantasy reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with Like.
You're always going to arrange you numbers no matter how you get them based on what you prioritize so I don't see what the issue is...
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Lakesidefantasy reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with Like.
Two reasons: 1 - as informers to roleplay; 2 - for those times when (usually in-character physical) actions need to be abstracted...
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Lakesidefantasy reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with Like.
Different results don't matter a whole heck of a lot in 5e. Even if you end up rolling +6 bonus higher than I do spread over 6 stats...
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Lakesidefantasy replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?.You don't have to roll all 18s, the same would be true if you rolled all 13s or all 4s. It's true that both the Standard method and...
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Lakesidefantasy reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with Like.
I need to find me a DM who uses the "All 18s method!" 43 years and I still haven't found a DM who uses it. The long and the short of...
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Lakesidefantasy replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?.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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Lakesidefantasy reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with Like.
It's funny, in a way: discussions like this are the closing of a circle that began in the early TSR days. To explain: In, say, 1e all...