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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 6721234" data-attributes="member: 6701872">An odd thing I have noticed since letting my players have any stats they wanted to is that they have all been trending towards more normal distributions, rather than going for super-high scores that were typical among my players when they were made to roll (and would ask for re-rolls if they didn't get some really high scores), and there has been not one time that one player has experienced "stat envy" of another player since implementing this method, which makes sense given that the players that would lament their scores not being as good as another player's can just choose to have equal (or even superior, though no one has done that) scores.It has been very strange, but opening up the players' to have whatever they want has removed all of the problems my players have ever expressed about rolling scores, and also avoids my complaints about point buy score generation - and since the system wouldn't break even if every party member had straight 18s before racial modifiers, it really doesn't have any downside.</blockquote>