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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8387547" data-attributes="member: 6801228">No, preventing a massively overpowered situation that was never intended and has careful rules to govern when it does happen is not the same as something they blatantly state that you should do and that it has no problems with the game balance. This is like trying to claim flood insurance because you dropped a glass of water, the scale is absurd on the face of it.Why tie your fun to something so inconsequential? That's what I keep coming back to. This is something that does not matter in the game. At all. Even your objections have nothing to do with the game, but only your perception of some random level of realism. IT boggles me you are willing to kick a player over something like this.And yet two people having the same set of numbers ruins your enjoyment of the game.Or, 10% of the players maybe having less than 15 to start with, and then choosing not to have a +2 race to boost their 14 or 15 up to 16 plus, which is starting to get into the range of single digit percentages, was a small enough consideration that they decided that being slightly less powerful was fine in the rare times it happened. It was never going to be 100%, and once you are in the 90% ranges, you are generally pretty safe in your assumptions.But it isn't more realistic. Doctor's don't roll dice to determine how strong you are. Teacher's don't roll dice to determine how intelligent you are. The factors that determine such things are far from random.No, it isn't more realistic.Well, since they never really bothered to speak on the realism of the stat generation method of DnD, I doubt they are going to have said anything on the matter, explicitly. The two options are presented as equal. The array and the average of rolled stats are incredibly close (not exact, but that is because they didn't want people to start with an 18). There is no way to differentiate them, except one is randomized and the other isn't. Which is the entire point.</blockquote>

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