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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6673286" data-attributes="member: 22424">Over the years I've bounced through a great many stat generation methods - random rolls, point buy, standard arrays, playing cards. In all that time, I've never managed to find one that I've been really happy with long-term.In the end, I decided to stop worrying about it, give the player a three-way choice, and get on with the game. Which has served me in good stead for a couple of campaigns now (in 3e and SWSE now; I'll be trying it with 5e soon).The methods I'll be offering are:- Fixed array: 16, 15, 13, 12, 10, 8- Random roll, 4d6 drop lowest. Reroll if (and only if) your highest score is 13 or less, or your net modifier is +0 or less.- 28-point buy, using the costs given in the 3e DMG.If rolling, the dice must be rolled in front of the DM, and once the first die falls you're committed to sticking with it.With regard to the OP's blog post: I agree about "false gambling". Funnily enough, though, I've avoided it thus far - if a player chooses to roll, I expect them to play the character that results in good faith, and thus far I've not been disappointed. Maybe I've just been lucky.As regards super-characters and sidekicks, I don't see either as a problem in isolation - the swing tends to be small enough, and niche protection strong enough, that it tends not to matter. Where I have seen a problem is in the unlucky case where you get both a super-character and a sidekick in the same group. Again, I've been lucky enough not to have that problem since I started offering the three-way choice.(Before I started offering the choice, I never used random rolls for anything other than one-shots. I have played in a game which did use them, and which had both the super-char and the sidekick. That might have been a problem, except that the campaign collapsed after one session anyway, for unrelated reasons.)</blockquote>

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