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<blockquote data-quote="devincutler" data-source="post: 6793905" data-attributes="member: 6684551">Sometimes constraint is required in order to be liberated (howze that for a koan?).The philosophy of rolling the dice in order is twofold:1) You cannot control what you are born as. I wish I were thin and handsome and could play baseball and had a kick ass singing voice, but I am not and cannot. Oh well. So you make the best of it and find other unique things you can do to which you are more suited.2) It forces you, at times, to think outside the box. You can still play almost any character in 5e with almost any stats, and while 3.x had some hard limits on spellcasters, you could still do it with even a mild score in your spellcasting class.To flip your argument around, doesn't the standard array or 4d6 drop one and reorder also technically constrain you? What if your great vision of this character you wish to author is someone who is immensely strong, charmingly handsome, cunningly intelligent, and as nimble as a ballerina? By gosh, I guess you'll be needing 18s in 4 stats to realize your character concept....won't you?I would hope that an experienced role player would have the chops to be able to play a variety of characters and work to &quot;author&quot; your character working from the stats rolled.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="devincutler, post: 6793905, member: 6684551"] Sometimes constraint is required in order to be liberated (howze that for a koan?). The philosophy of rolling the dice in order is twofold: 1) You cannot control what you are born as. I wish I were thin and handsome and could play baseball and had a kick ass singing voice, but I am not and cannot. Oh well. So you make the best of it and find other unique things you can do to which you are more suited. 2) It forces you, at times, to think outside the box. You can still play almost any character in 5e with almost any stats, and while 3.x had some hard limits on spellcasters, you could still do it with even a mild score in your spellcasting class. To flip your argument around, doesn't the standard array or 4d6 drop one and reorder also technically constrain you? What if your great vision of this character you wish to author is someone who is immensely strong, charmingly handsome, cunningly intelligent, and as nimble as a ballerina? By gosh, I guess you'll be needing 18s in 4 stats to realize your character concept....won't you? I would hope that an experienced role player would have the chops to be able to play a variety of characters and work to "author" your character working from the stats rolled. [/QUOTE]

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