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Friend, you want the Dice Point method. Try it! You like spending points, it's got that; you like randomization, it's got that too! The Dice Point method has got you covered. You roll 1d4+1d6+1d8 for each ability score, in order! But before you do that, you get 5 points to spend on your...

Yeah, I was thinking about this today. The classes are each dependent upon one or more abilities, but they also have multiple scores that they are not dependent on. So, we make sure they stay low in order to make other scores higher. We "dump" them so to speak, because you can't really dump...

For those of you out there claiming that Roll-With-Dice People come up with some pretty creative ways to avoid rolling badly, well yes. Here is a partial list of various rolling methods we were testing about 10 years ago on the Paizo message boards. I will say though that the Point Buy method...

The problem I see here is you were forced to make a cookie, I mean a monk of average Strength, average Charisma, and below average Intelligence. You had very few options after ensuring that this monk had a 16* in both of its Primary Abilities. After that, you had about 15 different ways you...

In Pathfinder Society my first character was Throckmorton, a fighter built on a 20 Point Buy° just like everybody else. I'm not an optimizer so by 12 level he was chucking out 30-40 points of damage a round while others were doing 100+ points a round. It was embarrassing. Pathfinder (and 3.5...

Merry Christmas! and Happy Hanukkah! 54,264 Ability Score Combinations. The Total Points column was made for Pathfinder 1e Point Buy where all scores start at 10 and you can buy down to 7 or buy up to 18. @EzekielRaiden

What about the people who like to roll? Aren't they having less fun?

This would then be a justification for why the denizens of Gormenghast aren't lost. I only read the first few chapters of the book and watched a few episodes of the television series. Do the occupants of Gormenghast ever get lost?

Perhaps that is the best way to handle getting lost - random encounters. The more lost you get the more encounters you get. Random encounters are traditionally a way to hit Players in their Character resources. That would certainly put a point on it. I think in Gormenghast Castle the idea is...

We don't talk about Fight Club here.

Indeed. Reminds me of a funny story. I played in a campaign where the Dungeon Master just told us to choose our ability scores, period°. I rebelled and rolled my scores instead. ° Full stop.

You can fix the awkward look by using an off-set square grid rather than hexagons. It has the same properties as a hexagon grid but still maintains 90° angles.

Gormenghast Castle? Interesting thought: How would one represent Gormenghast Castle in a game without doing this?

Thanks! Are there 65 combinations there?

Thank you this great! So, 45 of the 65 Standard Array combinations fail satisfy the aforementioned criteria. If we were to use those criteria to evaluate the 65 Standard Array combinations as either effective or ineffective then roughly 2/3 of them would be lacking in efficacy. Some more...

That is a pretty cool autocorrect/swipe typo. Thanks, and had I read your post earlier I wouldn't have had to talk to Alexa about it.

Would you? I might be able to find my old spreadsheets from a decade ago. In there I generated all 54,000+ combinations. Would that help? Also, I was talking with Alexa this morning and found that the number of permutations of the Standard Array is 6!=720. Can you confirm that?

You're right, good point.

Does anybody know how to get the data D&D Beyond released about the frequency of different point buy arrays users are choosing?

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