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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5903572" data-attributes="member: 54877">I think I've said this before, but often the boundaries/range of value is a much more useful piece of information than the average or median. Of course, both together are even more useful than either by itself. This, of course, assumes that the range is set with some thought ... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />&nbsp;in character generation, random is a lot more palatable if it is self-correcting over time. For example, instead of 3d6, in order, you start with that, but every level you roll 3d6 for three of the six stats again. If your roll is greater than your current stat, bump up the stat by one. Or even better, randomly select the three stats to try to bump. It tends to equal out over time, with the great rolls at first merely a temporary boost. And if the campaign is deliberately slow leveling, you can always change those boosts to after every adventure or whatever fits. Not that such is necessarily a good idea, but it is more palatable than the original. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 5903572, member: 54877"] I think I've said this before, but often the boundaries/range of value is a much more useful piece of information than the average or median. Of course, both together are even more useful than either by itself. This, of course, assumes that the range is set with some thought ... :p in character generation, random is a lot more palatable if it is self-correcting over time. For example, instead of 3d6, in order, you start with that, but every level you roll 3d6 for three of the six stats again. If your roll is greater than your current stat, bump up the stat by one. Or even better, randomly select the three stats to try to bump. It tends to equal out over time, with the great rolls at first merely a temporary boost. And if the campaign is deliberately slow leveling, you can always change those boosts to after every adventure or whatever fits. Not that such is necessarily a good idea, but it is more palatable than the original. :D [/QUOTE]

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