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<blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 6435676" data-attributes="member: 71699"><p>My reservation with that method is that someone with fantastic stats gets a free 14, making them flawless, while someone with bad stats gets one rather meh one. It's often useful to go back to the problems. We want heroic stats and items to feel heroic (hence preferring 3d6 over other options like 4d6 keep best, stat array or point buy). We want our players to be free to choose their class. We want playable characters with some decent stats and ideally some flaws (so as noted, we don't want to give the guy with great rolls more rolls or some bonus stat that he can use to take away his flaws).</p><p></p><p> I feel like you end up needing to roll them straight and then apply some kind of test for rerolls. Back in the day we did roll 3d6 straight but we had a test that you couldn't have net negative bonuses. If you did, you could choose to reroll from scratch. But to avoid forcing choice of class upon players, I feel we need to add an option to swap your best roll onto one of your class stats. That's it really.</p><p></p><p>Using Troll I roll 10, 10, 10, 13, 12, 7. That nets zero so I keep it. I want to play a Sorceror so I swap my 13 with my 7. I then choose race which I can minimax a bit if I want.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="clearstream, post: 6435676, member: 71699"] My reservation with that method is that someone with fantastic stats gets a free 14, making them flawless, while someone with bad stats gets one rather meh one. It's often useful to go back to the problems. We want heroic stats and items to feel heroic (hence preferring 3d6 over other options like 4d6 keep best, stat array or point buy). We want our players to be free to choose their class. We want playable characters with some decent stats and ideally some flaws (so as noted, we don't want to give the guy with great rolls more rolls or some bonus stat that he can use to take away his flaws). I feel like you end up needing to roll them straight and then apply some kind of test for rerolls. Back in the day we did roll 3d6 straight but we had a test that you couldn't have net negative bonuses. If you did, you could choose to reroll from scratch. But to avoid forcing choice of class upon players, I feel we need to add an option to swap your best roll onto one of your class stats. That's it really. Using Troll I roll 10, 10, 10, 13, 12, 7. That nets zero so I keep it. I want to play a Sorceror so I swap my 13 with my 7. I then choose race which I can minimax a bit if I want. [/QUOTE]
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