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<blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 6406952" data-attributes="member: 86653">I am, as a person, incredibly unlucky when it comes to dice rolls. I'm the guy who whiffs all night long on attacks then finally manages to roll that one 20... on some essentially irrelevant skill check. When I have to randomly roll my characters, I opt for the suicide clause because playing a character that's all negative modifiers is a terrible experience. That's not role-playing, or roll-playing, that's a forced evening of humiliation. I say forced because there have been DMs who refuse to allow arrays or point-buy options. That's just the DM being a prick. Pure and simple. So it's literally a choice between suicide the character or stand up and leave because I rolled badly... and I do mean badly on stats. That's not fun. It's only fun for the other players as they get to point and laugh all night. Straight up screw that.So yeah, rolling stats is a punishment for some. Utter, mind-boggling torture. It's usually the players who are personally very lucky screaming and crying and whinging about rolling their stats. I've watched players roll three 18s in a row... then they tell me to suck it up when I roll three 8s and nothing above a 12.Random rolls have no place in determining stats or hit points. I mean honestly, it makes about as much sense as rolling the starting level for each character in the group.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="overgeeked, post: 6406952, member: 86653"] I am, as a person, incredibly unlucky when it comes to dice rolls. I'm the guy who whiffs all night long on attacks then finally manages to roll that one 20... on some essentially irrelevant skill check. When I have to randomly roll my characters, I opt for the suicide clause because playing a character that's all negative modifiers is a terrible experience. That's not role-playing, or roll-playing, that's a forced evening of humiliation. I say forced because there have been DMs who refuse to allow arrays or point-buy options. That's just the DM being a prick. Pure and simple. So it's literally a choice between suicide the character or stand up and leave because I rolled badly... and I do mean badly on stats. That's not fun. It's only fun for the other players as they get to point and laugh all night. Straight up screw that. So yeah, rolling stats is a punishment for some. Utter, mind-boggling torture. It's usually the players who are personally very lucky screaming and crying and whinging about rolling their stats. I've watched players roll three 18s in a row... then they tell me to suck it up when I roll three 8s and nothing above a 12. Random rolls have no place in determining stats or hit points. I mean honestly, it makes about as much sense as rolling the starting level for each character in the group. [/QUOTE]

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