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Ruin Explorer reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with
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This is why, I’ll remind folks, when I use rolled stats I tell players that if they’re unhappy with their set of six, they can discard... -
Ruin Explorer reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
I agree with you, that’s dumb and I think the DM had their priorities twisted. It’s obvious that player was in for a bad time, and the...
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Ruin Explorer reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
The player did ask to use point buy both before they rolled and after they rolled poorly. The DM laughed and said no because "We all...
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Ruin Explorer 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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Ruin Explorer replied to the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats?.Yeah exactly. There's always been this odd judgemental streak where people, in what seems to me is a very false and fake way (but...
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Ruin Explorer 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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Ruin Explorer reacted to prabe's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
This does a good job of summing up why I moved away from rolling for stats. It's not that the people who would have less fun if the dice...
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Ruin Explorer reacted to CleverNickName'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.
Bah. Show the dice you aren't afraid! Dump your CON!
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Ruin Explorer reacted to jayoungr'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.
As for my personal reaction, it would depend on who I was playing with and what mindset I was in at the time. I could see myself...
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Ruin Explorer replied to the thread D&D General You Were Rolling Up a New Character, and Just Rolled a 3. What Is Your Reaction?.Yeah really putting the 3 in CON is absolutely the smart play here if the DM won't allow you to re-roll it for some reason.
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Ruin Explorer reacted to Reynard'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.
Well, at least you get to roll a new character up soon.
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Ruin Explorer reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Yeah, as one of the old farts of the board, I can say in the '70's that really top-down GMing was treated like it was the expected way...
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Ruin Explorer replied to the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats?.My experience is that nice (i.e. almost all) adult players will always act like a rising tide lifts all ships, but on close observation...
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Ruin Explorer reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
Yep. And yoru experience is fair. It just probably isn't universal. This, to my mind, is the actual point of game balance. In a...
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Ruin Explorer reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
I mentioned somewhere that our very first 5e campaign we used the heroic point buy from 3e for our stats and we decided it was a...