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Message: <blockquote data-quote="orsal" data-source="post: 2479213" data-attributes="member: 16016">My post was in direct response to your claim that the 3-of-4 d6 method produced more powerful characters than a 28-point linear point buy. If I wasn't talking about the same system as you, I couldn't very well have refuted your point, could I?  Some data collected from the Living ENWorld character thread. This is a 30-point-buy campaign. I went through the first 88 characters in all; I think that's a large enough sample to spare me the effort to do the same with the other 4 pages. I tallied the following abilitiy scores, pre-racial adjustment. 8 -- appears 37 times9 -- appears 6 times10 -- appears 107 times11 -- appears 8 times12 -- appears 108 times13 -- appears 21 times14 -- appears 150 times15 -- appears 20 times16 -- appears 57 times17 -- appears 8 times18 -- appears 7 times (I must be off by one, since the numbers add up to 529, and 6x88=528. Big deal.)So in my experience with point buy (which consists of LEW), yes, scores above 16 are rare. This gives me an idea. I'd like to compare this distribution to the probability distribution from 3-out-of-4 d6. Apart from odd numbers being much rarer in point buy, I suspect they're quite close.</blockquote>