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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6628708" data-attributes="member: 6787650"><p>Another thing that just occurred to me is that point buy also never forces you to make a weaker-than-average character. I have realized that I actually have a lot of fun with arrays like 9 9 14 7 10 6 (looks like a smelly, burly, surly AC 21 Heavy Armor Master Eldritch Knight to me), as long as I also have the freedom e.g. to play my 17 11 12 8 12 14 guy on other days, and because of the way character trees work, playing either strengthens the other so it doesn't feel like a waste. Playing the weaker stats feels like putting in work to &quot;earn&quot; the payoff of playing the high stats guy, although in actuality they're not that different except that the high-stats guy can be more of a generalist with more tactics-for-every-occasion and the low-stats guy is more pigeonholed. But within his pigeonhole he's still quite competent, so even the &quot;work&quot; isn't really work. (And with the low-stats guy I can relax, be less tactical and less paranoid, because he's expendable in a pinch.)</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 6628708, member: 6787650"] Another thing that just occurred to me is that point buy also never forces you to make a weaker-than-average character. I have realized that I actually have a lot of fun with arrays like 9 9 14 7 10 6 (looks like a smelly, burly, surly AC 21 Heavy Armor Master Eldritch Knight to me), as long as I also have the freedom e.g. to play my 17 11 12 8 12 14 guy on other days, and because of the way character trees work, playing either strengthens the other so it doesn't feel like a waste. Playing the weaker stats feels like putting in work to "earn" the payoff of playing the high stats guy, although in actuality they're not that different except that the high-stats guy can be more of a generalist with more tactics-for-every-occasion and the low-stats guy is more pigeonholed. But within his pigeonhole he's still quite competent, so even the "work" isn't really work. (And with the low-stats guy I can relax, be less tactical and less paranoid, because he's expendable in a pinch.) [/QUOTE]

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