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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dvvega" data-source="post: 1572564" data-attributes="member: 524">I went back to the proverbial drawing board and rethought my statistics.What I did was create the sample space from every possible combination available, filtering for the 2 rules of character generation. I added a third rule, that no ability could be less than 8 just to see if it made much difference. It was negligible.Why is this a valid space? Because if I gave you every possible combination out there, and you added "just one more" character, they would average with the other copy of themselves to become themselves.Then I went through and performed the averaging of abilities versus the averaging of points.Same situation arose with the averages: abilities around the 12.5 mark, point score average around the 30 mark.Speaking to two seperate professors I received two seperate answers. On the on hand, one categorically stated that you average the independent results, the other professor stated you average the ability points.The first opinion is based on the fact that in the average space your average set of abilities tends to 12.5s.The second opinion is based on the fact that the points table does not have results that are fractional therefore your average of 12.5 is "lost in limbo" unless you apply a rounding rule.Now since d20 requires rounding it causes issues of when to round. Anyways, I'm pretty "over" this affair. If I can't get a straight answer out of statistics professors then I'm giving up.</blockquote>

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