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<blockquote data-quote="Saidoro" data-source="post: 6673353" data-attributes="member: 6704530">The fundamental problem with rolling for stats is that it concentrates a very large amount of character power into a very small number of rolls with no real way to get around it after chargen. It's fine for one-shots because they don't last very long so the imbalance it inherently creates is small so the small and so the constant benefit from people who enjoy rolling can outweigh the cost from the linear penalty that imbalance creates.The average character created by whatever generation method you use will be average, not exceptional. That is what average means. And the point buy and array rules in the PHB actually create characters which are weaker than the average rolled character. Which is a problem. Still, if you're looking for a less bad method which still involves some rolling you could try forte/foible. Everyone gets an 18 and an 8, the other stats are rolled by your preferred method.Honestly, I go the other way. If you're using feats, you should go out of your way to make sure everyone has a good main stat off the bat so you can skip the boring &quot;everyone is sticking their feat in their main stat&quot; phase at levels 4 and 8 so that people can start choosing actually interesting abilities that make characters more distinct as soon as possible.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Saidoro, post: 6673353, member: 6704530"] The fundamental problem with rolling for stats is that it concentrates a very large amount of character power into a very small number of rolls with no real way to get around it after chargen. It's fine for one-shots because they don't last very long so the imbalance it inherently creates is small so the small and so the constant benefit from people who enjoy rolling can outweigh the cost from the linear penalty that imbalance creates. The average character created by whatever generation method you use will be average, not exceptional. That is what average means. And the point buy and array rules in the PHB actually create characters which are weaker than the average rolled character. Which is a problem. Still, if you're looking for a less bad method which still involves some rolling you could try forte/foible. Everyone gets an 18 and an 8, the other stats are rolled by your preferred method. Honestly, I go the other way. If you're using feats, you should go out of your way to make sure everyone has a good main stat off the bat so you can skip the boring "everyone is sticking their feat in their main stat" phase at levels 4 and 8 so that people can start choosing actually interesting abilities that make characters more distinct as soon as possible. [/QUOTE]

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