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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6629753" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Many purely aesthetic choices don't matter all that much from an optimization standpoint, but still affect aesthetic enjoyment. I share your preference for rolled stats, and I even share your distaste for those who cannot handle randomness in outcomes--but I think you are painting with a pretty broad brush that clearly doesn't apply to some Enworlders who prefer point-buy. (One PC every five years! That game is clearly not about Gygaxian dungeon-crawling.)Aesthetics are fundamentally nonrational. Why do I never play halflings? I just can't stand 25' movement rate for some reason. I know that it's possible to compensate for it with Longstrider, and I know that mechanically a halfling Sharpshooter or Sorlock is a fantastic consistent-DPR build which would suit my playstyle pretty well, but being restricted to 320' shortbow range with 25' movement utterly turns me off for some reason. There are some compromises I'm willing to make in the name of higher DPR, and apparently there are others I'm not willing to make. Similarly, I won't play clerics even though mechanically they're awesomesauce for a party, because I just don't want to roleplay someone who worships something that I as a player don't respect. It makes me not respect the PC, and playing a PC whom I don't respect just grates on me somehow.Aesthetics is what it is, and if someone simply likes point buy more while acknowledging that mechanical differences are ultimately pretty minor (on the order of a 15-20% difference in effectiveness), all I can do about that is live and let live.Semi-relevant quote: "If I esteem mankind to be in error, shall I bear them down? No. I will lift them up, and in their own way too, if I cannot persuade them my way is better; and I will not seek to compel any man to believe as I do, only by the force of reasoning, for truth will cut its own way."</blockquote>

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