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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ridley's Cohort" data-source="post: 6407501" data-attributes="member: 545">In 3e, there was a certain temptation to try and squeeze out 17 or 18 for your primary and see if you soft points could be mitigated.  But maybe a 16 is good enough?  Lots of choices.In 5e, your primary is usually 15 or 14, depending on the race you had in mind.  Unless you are such a detailed planner that you need to plan out that "half feat" choice at level 8, the biggest decision is straightforward, and that shrinks the decision space by a lot.For people who really dislike the fiddly factor, I bet your DM can pregen 12 arrays to lay in front of you, and you can pick one  -- that s/he "secretly" used a point buy table is not something you need to think about.</blockquote>