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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SteveC" data-source="post: 6625798" data-attributes="member: 9053">Uh, any of them. As someone who favors a point-buy or array system, I don't want anyone to be better--or worse--by chance at the start of the game. Yes, that means I also prefer static hit point increases, for instance.I prefer the factors that you decide when you build a character to be controlled by you, the player, and not subject to random factors.This isn't a strange notion: there are many, many games out there with this assumption. In fact I'd say that games that aren't based on AD&D or the OSR use this method overwhelmingly.When you're playing the game, all bets are off: if you pick up a +1 sword, well, good for you. Find a manual of gainful exercise, and your strength goes up. Cool for you! The game mechanics set equality for opportunity, not result.As I write this, I find it increasingly difficulty to understand why this is something that needs to be argued, but I suspect that you have not played many games outside of D&D or OSR games. For RPGs that aren't D&D, this is par for the course. You could argue that this is the very reason for some of their existence.I strongly suggest playing a game like Dungeon World if you haven't. It's SRD is free and you can find it right <a href="http://www.dungeonworldsrd.com/" target="_blank">here</a>. Other games like Fate, the Star Wars RPG, the Hero System and many more of them all approach character building this way, and many of them have been around for decades.If I'm not playing a game that's Diceless (like, say Amber, or it's new incarnation <a href="http://www.ritepublishing.com/dicelessroleplaying.html" target="_blank">Lords of Gossamer and Shadow</a>), I'm all-in for randomness in my gameplay because I like uncertainty as a part of the game part of an RPG.I just prefer the character creation to be something I control. You ask a lot of questions about why that matters, but the simple answer is "it's a preference." At my age, I don't get a lot of time to play RPGs (this 'lack of time thing' has sort of become my mantra) so I find that I play games that actually cater to my preferences at this point, which 5E certainly can do, although I don't think it does this as well as previous editions.</blockquote>

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