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Point Buy absolutely will not give results that are identical in play and usually won't give results that are even close in play. You...

I'm going to take "ENWorlder" to mean someone I otherwise wouldn't have met or known had I not been an ENWorlder myself; as opposed to...

We do much the same, only our quorum is more-than-half (i.e. if there's 4 or 5 players we sail with 3; if there's 6 players we sail with...

I ran for a long time with 6 of us. 1GM and 5 of players. If one player had to miss, we played. If two cancel and reschedule. We didn’t...

Point-buy virtually guarantees different results as well, unless every player just happens to buy to the same array in the end.

Let's try it this way. A player shows up with two characters, with identical stats. One of them was made with point-buy (and therefore...

I'm not explaining myself very well. Let's say I used point-buy and came up with 15, 14, 13, 12, 10, and 8. Bob used the standard...

The question is not whether two people rolling get exactly the same six values. The question is whether those six rolled values, in...

Sometimes if I want a roll from someone but there's reasons to hide the existence of and-or reasons for that roll I'll just get every...

I'd like to clarify a few things to help contextualize why the approach I described in the OP works for my table. So one of the things...

Can't you just roll a real dice off camera?

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...

Or find a way to pile on temporary hit points faster than you lose them?

One question not covered in the OP is the level of wealth-resources-etc. the real-world version has, or has access to. If we're to use...

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