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<blockquote data-quote="Conaill" data-source="post: 2310575" data-attributes="member: 1264">Interesting idea. You could also link this to the deafult assumption that the population as a whole fits a s3d6 stat distribution. Here's the pointbuy distribution you would get from 3d6:10% of the population: Point buy less than 10 (yikes!)50% of the population: Point buy less than 18 (median is 17, average is 18)80% of the population: Point buy 11-27 (quite a wide range... 50% between 13-22)9% of the population: Point buy 28-370.9% of the population: Point buy 38-450.1% of the population: Point buy &gt; 45That's a lot more variation from the 20 point default NPC pointbuy than I had expected. So if PC's are the top 1% of the regular population, we should be rolling up PC stats closer to a 40 point buy!Then again, personally I don't really have any problem with the idea that my budding young hero may very well start out with stats that are below those of the town's blacksmith, constable or major. After all, it's not the stats that make the hero! If we were to say that beginning heros are roughly in the top 1/3 of the general population, that would correspond to to an average pointbuy of around 26, which seems much more reasonable. (The top 1/4 of the total population averages around point buy 28, top 15% around point buy 30,&nbsp; top 10% point buy 32.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Conaill, post: 2310575, member: 1264"] Interesting idea. You could also link this to the deafult assumption that the population as a whole fits a s3d6 stat distribution. Here's the pointbuy distribution you would get from 3d6: 10% of the population: Point buy less than 10 (yikes!) 50% of the population: Point buy less than 18 (median is 17, average is 18) 80% of the population: Point buy 11-27 (quite a wide range... 50% between 13-22) 9% of the population: Point buy 28-37 0.9% of the population: Point buy 38-45 0.1% of the population: Point buy > 45 That's a lot more variation from the 20 point default NPC pointbuy than I had expected. So if PC's are the top 1% of the regular population, we should be rolling up PC stats closer to a 40 point buy! Then again, personally I don't really have any problem with the idea that my budding young hero may very well start out with stats that are below those of the town's blacksmith, constable or major. After all, it's not the stats that make the hero! If we were to say that beginning heros are roughly in the top 1/3 of the general population, that would correspond to to an average pointbuy of around 26, which seems much more reasonable. (The top 1/4 of the total population averages around point buy 28, top 15% around point buy 30, top 10% point buy 32.) [/QUOTE]

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