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<blockquote data-quote="Enevhar Aldarion" data-source="post: 7795597" data-attributes="member: 6818233">I do not think I have played a game that did stats like this since I first started playing in the early 80s, but my experience was that it was such a poor way to generate stats, that everyone I knew abandoned it for other methods, even if it was something as simple and still rolling 3d6 in order, but rolling six sets at a time and choosing the best set. Also, most groups I have played with or DMed for, the players already had character concepts in mind for class and race before rolling the stats, so all the DMs ended up using a more generous stat generation system anyway, so that some players would not have to keep rolling up stats til they got a set that made the minimum requirements that older versions of the rules had.Which brings up a side question for you. Are you going to force the players to use the first set they roll, no matter the numbers? Or will players get to roll a new set if the first (or second or third, etc) is so bad that it makes an unplayable character?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Enevhar Aldarion, post: 7795597, member: 6818233"] I do not think I have played a game that did stats like this since I first started playing in the early 80s, but my experience was that it was such a poor way to generate stats, that everyone I knew abandoned it for other methods, even if it was something as simple and still rolling 3d6 in order, but rolling six sets at a time and choosing the best set. Also, most groups I have played with or DMed for, the players already had character concepts in mind for class and race before rolling the stats, so all the DMs ended up using a more generous stat generation system anyway, so that some players would not have to keep rolling up stats til they got a set that made the minimum requirements that older versions of the rules had. Which brings up a side question for you. Are you going to force the players to use the first set they roll, no matter the numbers? Or will players get to roll a new set if the first (or second or third, etc) is so bad that it makes an unplayable character? [/QUOTE]

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