D&D 4E Average Atributes in 4e ?

[Gort]

I like standard arrays best, personally. Iron Heroes did this well. You could choose between a character with one maximum stat, a fairly high stat and the rest average, a character with two high stats and the rest average, or all above average stats.

I preferred this to point buy because it meant people can't dump stats (overly) and they can't get the exact stats that they want, which leads to more interesting characters in my opinion. After switching away from rolling stats (because seriously, the guy with all 12s and the guy with everything 16 or higher is poor balance indeed) to point buy, I was confronted by half the party I was DMing for having charisma scores of 6, because frankly all stats are not created equal. One of them was a cleric, which says it all about turn undead, really.

So, I like a choice between several arrays (I think three is optimal) for character generation. I also want to see rolling hitpoints going the way of the optional rule, after a friend played a fighter who couldn't roll above a 3 on his hit-dice.

 

[rob626]

stat generation

We go around the table, everyone rolls 4d4+2 once, until we have 6 stats. Then everyone uses this set, assigning as the stats where they want.

The excitement of random scores, everyone has equal stat-power, and slightly higher than average scores. I also use the same stat set for my elite npc's. Works out pretty well.