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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RedShirtNo5" data-source="post: 1052541" data-attributes="member: 173">I'll suggest an alternative method that gives fairly random stats while avoiding large disparities between PCs.1.  Take a deck of cards.  Remove 24 cards - four Aces, four 2s, four 3s, four 4s, four 5s and four 6s.2.  Shuffle the 24 cards and deal into six piles of four cards each.3.  For each pile, turn over the cards, discard lowest card, and total the remaining three cards.  Assign to stats "in order" if you are feeling 'old school'.  Otherwise, let the player assign.  IIRC, this gives an average stat just over 12.A similar alternative with even less disparity between PCs is the following:  remove 18 cards - two Aces, two 2s, three 3s, three 4s, four 5s and four 6s; deal into six piles of 3.  This gives an average of 11.83. -RedShirt</blockquote>