Good for you. And your point? Clearly the monster stats not being differentiated doesn't bother you so much that you continue to roll for them, yet it bothers you so much that the players might work from the same small pool of numbers that you ban the entire option?
Yep. I don't repeat monsters very often. PCs are repeated all the time. When one dies. When a new campaign starts.
Actually, thinking about it, you probably ban the average hp too don't you?
Absolutely. I do have them roll hit points with advantage, though. Hit points are too important in 5e to have someone roll poorly due to bad luck. This is my first campaign with the hit point advantage rule, though. It's an experiment and we will see if hit points swing too far in the other direction or not.
So no since the start of 5e. Which is the edition we are talking about. The 1e just highlights why I will never play 3d6 in order. And even still, none were that 3 you decided was the minimum.
As I've pointed out repeatedly, I've only played 5e twice as a player. Since I DM most of the time, I haven't had time to roll poorly yet.
You are right, it is common, it also isn't at all what a 1st level fighter is. Unless that Farmer's son is just born with the knowledge of how to wield every weapon and wear all armors. Things that are clearly skills, that the kid has. Heck, he's even mastered a fighting style enough to do all sorts of things, like intercept enemy attacks and fight blinded.
Apparently farmers are badass, since that's exactly what the farmer's son gets for just picking up dear old dad's sword.
There is a certain amount of unrealistic things that I have to accept for the game to play. That doesn't mean I have to accept them all. I can change things like getting rid of arrays and having players roll for hit points without the game breaking down. I'm not going to make every fighter have to go to fighter training school in order to be a fighter.
So, "because rules" works here, and it doesn't work for the small pool of numbers? Why? Because you are okay with one but the other offends you? Again, we aren't talking about your character and your character sheet, we are talking about the player's character.
At some point there's such a thing as too much realism. Where we draw the line differs from person to person. You are apparently okay with far less realism than I am, but that doesn't mean that I am trying to mirror reality.
Driz'zt is an archetype. People recognize the flavors of the character instantly.
Yes and no. First, Drizzt is not a Lancer. He's not a foil to the hero. He IS the hero. Second, the rebel(or against type) is itself an archetype in a general way, but it's not an archetype for that race. All the Drizzt clones in the world didn't create a new drow archetype.
Sure, if you pick the right domain, you can do that. But only about half the domains give you heavy. And you could get Charisma, but a lot of people will see a 10 charisma as enough compared to getting that +1 AC.
It just takes a feat. And you get +1 strength out of it as well.
Sure, you can. You can also put your 8 in wisdom. You keep trying to nitpick that my general point most be wrong because a player might make a choice different than I think. What you are ignoring is that a lot of player tend to prioritize the same things. +1 AC is very tempting, especially if they aren't planning on doing a lot with int, cha or even str.
Sure +1 AC is tempting and some will take it. I'm arguing your claim that most clerics will have a 12 or higher dexterity. We don't know where dex will fall, because there are other temptations as well, such as doing better at an entire pillar by putting it in charisma instead. And then there are RP reasons for putting it elsewhere.
Why would they get it if they were exceptional? The very definition of that word is "exception".
In the context of PCs, it just means higher stats in general, not that they are an exception to racial bonus rules So if a commoner has 10, 10, 12, 10, 10, 10. A PC might have 12, 12, 14, 12, 12, 12.
The rules for the player character's are meant to make exceptional people. So, if they are exceptions to the averages of their race... then the rules are still working perfectly fine.
With racial bonuses, yes.
I know you don't like it, but you are the only one espousing this view that the population of average elves is important to uphold.
There have been at least 2-3 others here doing it as well. So that's an incorrect statement.
I never said they did. I said people trying to treat PCs like they are ordinary people doesn't work.
Sure it does. I will bet you very good money that it works out very well for him. If it didn't, he wouldn't continue to play that way. He's been doing it for decades.
