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<blockquote data-quote="DND_Reborn" data-source="post: 8815354" data-attributes="member: 6987520">Yep. I've done a lot of this before so I figured I would chime in on the numbers.I agree, the problem with rolling is this: if you roll, you will likely have better scores, BUT you could have worse. Do you want to take that risk?If people agreed and ACTUALLY took the rolls in one set (no multiple sets, no taking the standard array or point-buy if you rolled badly, etc.) then it would be fine, but I agree most groups who allow rolling add a caveat of some sort: roll 3 sets, use standard array or point-buy if you don't like rolls, use group rolling (every method I've seen increases scores above normal), etc.I'm sure there are groups out there who roll and you are stuck with what you roll, no matter what, but I haven't seen a group ever do that. I know in the 40+ years I've been playing, even when we used 4d6k3, if your rolls were really bad, you got to roll again. If you were happy, you kept them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DND_Reborn, post: 8815354, member: 6987520"] Yep. I've done a lot of this before so I figured I would chime in on the numbers. I agree, the problem with rolling is this: if you roll, you will [I]likely[/I] have better scores, BUT you could have worse. Do you want to take that risk? If people agreed and ACTUALLY took the rolls in one set (no multiple sets, no taking the standard array or point-buy if you rolled badly, etc.) then it would be fine, but I agree most groups who allow rolling add a caveat of some sort: roll 3 sets, use standard array or point-buy if you don't like rolls, use group rolling (every method I've seen increases scores above normal), etc. I'm sure there are groups out there who roll and you are stuck with what you roll, no matter what, but I haven't seen a group ever do that. I know in the 40+ years I've been playing, even when we used 4d6k3, if your rolls were really bad, you got to roll again. If you were happy, you kept them. [/QUOTE]

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