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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Lorax" data-source="post: 2471362" data-attributes="member: 27662">I cant agree more.  I have one player in my groups who I am fairly suspicious of fudging his stat rolls.  I am absolutely going to  use stat point buy in my next game.I woke up this morning thinking about stat buy, and one of my concerns with using it is the whole idea of a Stat Dump, and how some classes get signifigant advantages out of it (read: wizards).That all being said, I'm not terribly concerned with stat cheating, its a game played for fun.I am somewhat concerned with a reasonable amount of balance.  Many races with an ECL adjustment give little beyond stat bonuses.  A character with all stats of 16+ is clearly more powerful than is warrented for a character of his level - thus I have been convinced that stat buy is the way.An idea that came to me was to give bonus points out for spreading the stats out.Something like + 1 build point if all of you stats are 10+, +2 build points if they are all 11+,+3 build points if they are all 12+ ect.That should help out the characters who have multiple stat requirements to do their job, without raising the bar on base points.  Thoughts?</blockquote>