Character Creation Stat Draft (Trial Draft Complete!!)

[Thanee]

Now I really hope someone choose differently just to prove you wrong. . .

There isn't really much left to choose differently...

Bye
Thanee

 

[Gold Roger]

Wild 8.
Seriously, all the 10 int would give me is one skill and some boni on skills this char could go without. With the 10 Int my char would look rather cookie-cutterish, but a low int with high wis gives a nice charakter hook.
This makes my charakter:
Str: 12
Dex: 15
Con:13
Int: 8
Wis: 16
Cha: 13

Lots of ways this could go, but most would be at least part Cleric. Maybe a Neutral Cleric/Rogue with weapon finesse, spontanous inflict and razing strike feats. A distinct fighting stile that is streight forward and inflexible enough for a Int 8 guy, but still thoughtfull and propably connected to some interesting philosophies for the wisdom 16 part. Total ability bonus is +7. This way I'd make him a halfling I think.

 

[Enkhidu]

And CHA 8 for me.

I ended up with the stats I pretty much thought I would, which fit the tough as nails fighter I envisioned.

 

[Thanee]

Wild 8.

With the 10 Int my char would look rather cookie-cutterish, ...

Now that seems a bit of an exaggeration to me.


I'll stay with my Wis 11 choice, of course.

Str 12 Dex 14 Con 14 Int 15 Wis 11 Cha 16

That looks pretty good.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Finley DaDum]

Dex 8

Like I had a choice but overall I like my stats though and I can deal with a low Dex way better than a low Con.

Str-16 Dex-8 Con-16 Int-14 Wis-12 Chr-14

I could go with an elf to mitigate the Dex penalty. Elven Paladin would work pretty well.

 

[el-remmen]

Did we mess up somewhere? I only have 5 stat picks for Umbran. . .

Edit: Oh, I see - he got Wild 10 twice. . .

 

[el-remmen]

So, we are all done. . . and personally, I think it went really well and everyone should be pretty happy with what they got - and it has reinforced that I will be using this method for my next D&D campaign.

Here are the final results and their values in point-buy (from highest to lowest):

Thanee - 12 Str, 14 Dex, 14 Con, 15 Int, 11 Wis, 16 Cha = 37 points
Elder-Basilisk - 17 Str, 10 Dex, 14 Con, 11 Int, 12 Wis, 15 Cha = 36 points
Enkhidu - 14 Str, 13 Dex, 18 Con, 13 Int, 12 Wis, 8 Cha = 36 points
Finley - 16 Str, 8 Dex, 16 Con, 14 Int, 12 Wis, 14 Cha = 36 points
Umbran - 10 Str, 15 Dex, 11 Con, 16 Int, 15 Wis, 10 Cha = 33 points
Gold Roger - 12 Str, 15 Dex, 13 Con, 8 Int, 16 Wis, 13 Cha = 32 points

 

[Thanee]

Yep, those are all absolutely decent stats; also the process is fun and entertaining, and fairly well-balanced.

It also doesn't seem much of a disadvantage to be in the middle or back of the draft order in the first round.

Only thing I would do different (not that this really work here) is to let the players roll up the stats (one row each, rerolling as per the PHB, you do the Wild stats). I think this will make it even more fun.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Conaill]

Yep, those are all absolutely decent stats; also the process is fun and entertaining, and fairly well-balanced.

It also doesn't seem much of a disadvantage to be in the middle or back of the draft order in the first round.

I agree. In fact, given the constrainst due to character concepts and previously chosen stats, people don't really tend to go for the highest remaining stat in each round anyway. You could probably simplify it down to a fixed order like ABC CBA CBA etc. and still wind up with equally satisfying results.


I do think the extra Wild stats inflate the total stats too much to my taste. An average of 35 point-buy is *way* more than I'd like to see. Perhaps rolling the Wild scores with 3d6 might be a good compromise. The Wild scores are more valuable anyway. This should still allow some flexibility, but not skew the final results too much.

 

[Thanee]

But the point is, it's not point buy. These stats are not overpowering in any way, not even close to what you would get with actual point buy.

Bye
Thanee