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Digging up my book. 3.5 Player's Handbook, p. 7: 3.5 Player's Handbook, p. 8: 3.5 DMG, p. 110: 3.5 DMG, p. 169: So you are correct that in 3.5 it is the elite array, including when applied to the PCs. But it seems clear to me that it is called that because the standard method produces...

For shits and giggles, I used the same roller to make 50 sets of scores using 3d6. The averages and means for those sets ended up as: 14,42 (14) 12,82 (13) 11,66 (12) 10,36 (10) 8,76 (9) 6,82 (7) On average, this seems like it'd make for a playable character in 5e, though it definitely...

I never said that there were zero rolls lower than 8 or higher than 15, though. In fact, I literally noted that the median value for the highest ability score among the sets of six scores was 16 and the average was 15,78, which requires that some of the highest scores had to be higher than 15...

Unrelated to my other points, so making a separate post. I used the die roller that was linked a couple of pages back to roll 50 sets of stats, and the average and (median) for the rolls when arranged highest-to-lowest was: 15,78 (16) 14,02 (14) 12,82 (13) 12 (12) 10,6 (10) 8,24 (8) That...

I am saying that the rules don't let you choose the array after rolling, so it's a false equivalency.

You are making it sound like the choice is between 18-12-11-10-8-6 and 15-14-13-12-10-8, which would imply the choice is made after you have already rolled. Yes, if you are making a MAD PC and you get to decide to use the array after rolling, the array is a great.

I apologize for latching on to a very small part of your post. But 15-14-13-12-10-8 is decidedly not an awesome set of rolls when doing 4d6-drop1, you are likely to get those values of better. And that was the point I was trying to get at when I said it seems your problem is with the rolling...

Since point buy is used for all six ability scores at the same time, you should probably factor that in for the costs you calculated. For example, the chance of getting at least one 18 with six rolls of 4d6-drop-1 (if my math is correct) is 9,335%, which is significantly higher than the 1,62%...

How is getting the statistically likely result advantaging the PC? I don't see how this argument makes any sense unless your problem is actually with 4d6drop1 instead of the array itself.

It is the standard array because that is pretty damn close to the average array of rolls you get from rolling 4d6-drop-lowest six times and arranging from highest to lowest, as demonstrated in this article. I guess it could be called the expected array if that changes how you feel about it. If...

I'm coming in a bit late, but I'll add that six compsognathus isn't exactly an easy fight for the party. Based on the encounter-building rules, as creatures of the party's level -2, they're each worth 20 XP, so six of them adds up to 120 XP, making this encounter roughly halfway between moderate...

I noticed the table lists different Prestige ratings for gettting an audience than the example favors. For example, level 2 lists "audience with the mayor", but the table has mayor at level 3.

A 9th level cantrip that blocks 12 damage. And the scaling is just a guess, it could be more, it could be less. It is likely that the recharge duration decreases with the automatic heightening as well.

I know right. Ecounter, Exploration and Downtime maps directly to Combat, Exploration and Social. ...wait a minute, no it doesn't.

See, to me that just isn't the case. I started DnD with 3.0, and did play an assortment of characters over the time (still playing an Incarnate/Ironsoul Forgemaster in a campaign that's been stretching on for years, just hit level 20 last week), but as soon as I stop playing a character, I start...

It's different strokes, it seems. Since no 4e monster ability is as complex to parse as half the spells are in 3.x, I've had no trouble assimilating monster powers. But give a monster a spell-like ability, and I'll have to go hunting through the books for the effects and what save it allows and...

That is not how I've seen things go at all in any game group I have been a part of. If you encounter an ogre, it has exactly the stats from the MM, with the exception of the DM maybe rolling the hit points instead of using the average. Not to mention that thanks to all the number increases you...

You've overvalued all the numbers of the ogre by more than two points (3.5: STR 21 -> 24, HP 29 -> 36, Attack bonus +8 -> +11, damage 2d8+7 [average 16] -> 3d6+10 [21,5]). Well, I guess the STR modifier only went from +5 to +7, so that is within two points. But it was nowhere near what you said...

So you could tell me now, without looking them up, what the stats of the ogre in 3.5 (or Pathfinder, if you prefer that) are? Including its Hit Dice and HP, skills, feats, AC and saves? What about the stats of a satyr, something relatively close to the redcap that was previewed?

If there is no per level bonus, then a high level character is not significantly better than a 1st level expert (skilled using the numbers you provided. This means the world will have to be rather flat (if ability modifiers are constrained to a similar range), or your ability scores are going to...