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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6407023" data-attributes="member: 22424">Over the years I ran 3e, I was constantly tinkering with the stat-gen method. I never quite found a method that I was truly happy with - random rolls invariably led to one PC significantly better or worse than the others (or, worst, one of each in the group), while point buy ended up with cookie-cutter characters.In the end, I settled on just giving each player a choice:1) 4d6-drop-lowest. Reroll if your highest stat is 13 or less, or if your net bonus is +0 or worse. If you chose this method, you had to roll in front of the group, and the moment the first die hit the table you couldn't change your mind. (And, yes, you were expected to play the character that resulted in good faith - no suiciding.)2) Fixed array: 16/15/13/12/10/83) 28-point buy, using the costs from the 3e DMG.It turned out that this worked really well, with almost everyone choosing the default array. I fully intend to stick with the same for 5e.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 6407023, member: 22424"] Over the years I ran 3e, I was constantly tinkering with the stat-gen method. I never quite found a method that I was truly happy with - random rolls invariably led to one PC significantly better or worse than the others (or, worst, one of each in the group), while point buy ended up with cookie-cutter characters. In the end, I settled on just giving each player a choice: 1) 4d6-drop-lowest. Reroll if your highest stat is 13 or less, or if your net bonus is +0 or worse. If you chose this method, you had to roll in front of the group, and the moment the first die hit the table you couldn't change your mind. (And, yes, you were expected to play the character that resulted in good faith - no suiciding.) 2) Fixed array: 16/15/13/12/10/8 3) 28-point buy, using the costs from the 3e DMG. It turned out that this worked really well, with almost everyone choosing the default array. I fully intend to stick with the same for 5e. [/QUOTE]

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