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Lanefan reacted to Swarmkeeper's post in the thread D&D General You Were Rolling Up a New Character, and Just Rolled a 3. What Is Your Reaction? with
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I’d find A kinda boring, so would pick B. B offers a chance at maxing the character’s primary stat, after the initial ASI. It also... -
Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General You Were Rolling Up a New Character, and Just Rolled a 3. What Is Your Reaction?.Having a hard cutline can help, as there's some players out there who won't like it unless their average is 17 or higher. My cutline is...
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Lanefan reacted to cbwjm's post in the thread D&D General You Were Rolling Up a New Character, and Just Rolled a 3. What Is Your Reaction? with Like.
If I can place my rolls wherever then I'll just make someone that can't talk his way out of a paper bag. If it's in order then that's...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General D&D Dungeon Map Design: Good and Bad.That map is a classic example of where elevation markers (0', +5', -20', etc.) would be a huge help. There's no way to tell whether any...
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Lanefan reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
Not even close. It's not about high stats at all. You've never heard the well known phrase, "It's not about the destination, it's...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats?.It is, but what matters in this case is how the result was achieved. If I roll all 12s and you roll all 18s that's great for you...
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Lanefan reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
Someone PICKING high stats rather than rolling high stats. It's not a problem with high stats. If I were in a game and rolled as 12's...
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Lanefan reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
I don’t think I’ve ever played with anyone who would be unhappy that their fellow players’ characters had high stats, and I’m not sure I...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats?.??? If you can challenge a party with some disparity in level (which 5e can certainly handle; it's only 3e and 4e that had problems...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats?.IME everyone cares. to the point where it's just naturally assumed they care.
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Lanefan reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
The DM. You're the DM. It's not an isolated thing. If you have 4 players who roll stats and keep the stats they rolled and one person...
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Lanefan reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General You Were Rolling Up a New Character, and Just Rolled a 3. What Is Your Reaction? with Like.
<shrug> I start with the system, and I extract the setting fiction and concepts from the rules. Since I play a lot of systems, this is...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General You Were Rolling Up a New Character, and Just Rolled a 3. What Is Your Reaction?.That tells me the range they claim to be 3-18 is functionally more like 7-14. The math is too flat. An Int-18 character should make a...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General You Were Rolling Up a New Character, and Just Rolled a 3. What Is Your Reaction?.Same here; with disease or accident able to expand that range down to 1 (at 0, you're dead or close) and up to wherever. In the game...
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Lanefan reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General You Were Rolling Up a New Character, and Just Rolled a 3. What Is Your Reaction? with Like.
I view the range of 3-18 as the spectrum of humanity barring disease or accident. An example that is hopefully not offensive is height...