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True, but balancing asymmetrical options is WAY harder.

I mean, isn't invalidating others and making it known your way is superior the best form of fun? (It is, this is unarguable.)

I feel like the fact that classes aren't balanced, races aren't balanced, spells aren't balanced, even the individual results on a d20 throughout the course of a session aren't balanced, is much more important than differing point buys within the same range not being balanced.

<pedantic> That doesn't seem quite right to me. The chance of all 1s on 4d6 (a 3 stat) is 6^4, or 1296. The odds of rolling all 1s twice in a row is only 1/1296^2, which is 1 in 1.680x10^6. The extra rolls would only increase the odds of getting getting more 3s, not decrease it. My quick...

Yep. A 18 Intelligence character will pass a DC 10 Intelligence check 75% of the time, assuming no other modifiers. A 3 Intelligence character will pass that same check 30% of the time. That means that 7.5% of the time (or about 1 time in 13), the 3 Int character will know or figure out...

It represents someone who is much less likely (although not impossible) to succeed at tasks based around accumulated knowledge, and utilizing knowledge to make logical deductions. They're also generally poor at utilizing wizardly or artifice magic. One of the big conceptual differences between...

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Oh, and the actual best method to generate stats: Stat Draft. https://www.enworld.org/threads/playing-through-a-sample-stat-draft-completed.684265/

Because time is a flat circle, and every topic at ENWorld has been discussed before. :) https://www.enworld.org/threads/geniuses-with-5-int.482860/

The fact that you want to put a normative judgment on it tells me we have very different perspectives on its relative importance.

I'm happy to do that if the players want. I don't have anyone shameless enough to give themselves 14,15,16,17,18,18 or something like that. The majority of my players actually prefer having moderate rolls, or some low rolls to add character texture. Most of my DMs who prefer rolling let us...

A disparate collection of vagabonds and strays. Oh wait, that wasn’t what you meant.

I try to comfort myself with the knowledge a lot of companies would have made the patch 8 subclasses a paid DLC.

I think we all would have preferred a robust set of DLC for BG3; unfortunately, that's not the timeline we landed in. :)

GoT was very much a low-level D&D type of setting, to me. (Although I think D&D would be a poor system for GoT.) Barristan Selmy at his peak might have been something equivalent to level 10; I'd put Jaime Lannister somewhere around level 6 or 7.

Yes, but I still BOUGHT them. I haven't bought a WotC product on my own since 2021 (Mordenkainen's MotM).

3e and 4e managed to put out multiple books a year that I was interested in for their entire product line.

I view Community so I can see everything. I always set the posts per page to the maximum.

I mean, if a flesh and blood creature is type elemental, than that means the game mechanic “elemental” doesn’t mean immortal spirit, right?

Generally love it, as long as it's attached to at least one interesting high stat. 3,10,10,13,16,17? Love it. 3,10,10,12,13,14? No way.