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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeapThaumaturgist" data-source="post: 2685609" data-attributes="member: 12332">A nod toward Point Buy, here.  While some old-school hard-corers will complain, in the long run, you won't have Bob The Cool Character With All 10s standing next to Barbarian #14 with two 18s.  As to any talk of:  "But you can make a character with crappy stats so much more INTERESTING because they're less powerful."  Sure, can do the same thing with points.  Character is character is character.I really like the idea of using a potion and some faux percentile rolls.  Don't just play a choral hymn track in the background and RP out some god handing Bob +2 Wis.  That'd be mighty lame for everybody else.  If your group is hardcore into rolling for ability scores, they'll probably get a kick out of somebody drinking a potion and randomly getting an ability score buff.If I were you, I'd check the other stats and average what all the other players have.  15,15,12,10,10,10 is 26 points, I think, which is more than the 25 "standard".  If everybody really outstrips him, they might be 32 or more.  If you add +2 Wis to the character that'd make him 28.  You might want to also hand out some other weird bonus if he's REALLY low compared to the others.  A spell-like ability or something.  ANOTHER idea would be cursing a potion to change his race a la Reincarnation to Dwarf, which'd net him 2 Con and a handful of little abilities, while making it seem like he got shafted.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  I found this one out when the party wizard got hit by a curse and turned to a dwarf and really had no interest in going back, since he just got more con and some nice abilities.  --fje</blockquote>

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