D&D 5E Anyone ever try playing with just 9's and 10's?

[Li Shenron]

Just curious, has anyone ever tried playing as if you were a normal Human being forced into adventure? Playing with race = Human and all your abilities being 9-10's with no + mods?

Not as such, but I've played the game with 3d6-roll-in-order, or 3d6 with different adjustments mechanics, meaning that we didn't have every score of every character being 9-10, but the average being 10.5.

 

[ExploderWizard]

I've always wanted to run G1 where each player gets a squad of 1st level characters led by a 2nd or 3rd level sarge or spellcaster. My players look at me like I"m crazy when I suggest it.

Talk about hard mode! G1 would grind up such group and spit them out. Sounds like fun to try for a laugh though.

 

[ranger69]

In my group it has become a tradition that I run a Christmas bash special. It has a different theme each year. For instance having so many levels to create a character to fight each other. One year I created a bunch of monsters as PC's and let them bash each other up. I did an Olympics one year with high jump, long jump, and other athletics. This year I am doing a 5E one of dungeon to see how 5E plays.
Now to the point of the thread, I may use this idea next year for the Christmas bash and the characters are all commoners with no special adventuring ability.

 

[Jester David]

Kinda.

In 3e/PF there was the "NPC array", where characters have a 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8 for stats. I once ran a Ravenloft game using that array and only letting people take NPC classes.
They were fragile, but it was fun. But they were only commoners for a single level. It was a nice change.

 

[aramis erak]

Talk about hard mode! G1 would grind up such group and spit them out. Sounds like fun to try for a laugh though.

In my youth, for lack of any other modules, we played B2, then G1... if you are careful, and kill everything, you're about 5th level by the end of it. If you're not careful, you're dead. But that was in the days when AD&D was still considered "new"...