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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MerricB" data-source="post: 6344828" data-attributes="member: 3586">My Friday night group have started Lost Mine of Phandelver, all creating new Basic characters. We allowed rolling of ability scores, and got quite a number of scores very close to the set scores of point buy, with one or two outliers. Nothing too extreme.Greg got the cleric's role, a character class he really enjoyed during the 4E days. He ended up making an wood elven cleric with Wisdom of 16 and Dexterity of 18. And then he bought a bow...Although a dedicated fighter/archer will be better at archery - and at higher levels, Greg will find spells more effective - it was great to see him in action. All the characters were effective, but coming from playing a lot of 4E and AD&D, it was really nice to see this elf using his bow, making sure goblins didn't get near his friends. It's not really a big deal - an elf with a bow - but for some reason, it really made my day that the Basic Rules would allow this character straight away, even without all of the extra stuff in the PHB.Cneers!</blockquote>