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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 2733815" data-attributes="member: 177">Can't speak to your players, specifically.&nbsp; In general, I think this isn't a hot idea.&nbsp; Competition between players in character generation is asking for trouble.The average gaming group is not nearly large enough to ensure against luck or unluck.&nbsp; Somoene may always go early in the rotation, or someone else always late.&nbsp; So now the lucky guy is responsible for taking all the good scores, and the unlucky guy feels like he's getting shafted by everybody else.&nbsp; In standard character generation, with each person just rolling their own dice, someone may get the short end of the stick, but at least the other players in the group weren't responsible for handing it to them.Possibility 1 - don't make it a random roll.&nbsp; Set some form of order that at least tries to make sure that everyone gets a fair shake - Perhaps the higher the stat a player picks in one pass, the later he goes in teh next pass...Possibility 2 - Don't open up all the stats in each pass.&nbsp; Make only as many stats as their are players available, and mix them up, so there are high and low stas available in each pass, and they don't know for certain exactly what's available.&nbsp; Possibility 3 - make it fully cooperative, rather than competetive.&nbsp; Allow the players, as a group, to shuffle the stas around as they collectively see fit.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 2733815, member: 177"] Can't speak to your players, specifically. In general, I think this isn't a hot idea. Competition between players in character generation is asking for trouble. The average gaming group is not nearly large enough to ensure against luck or unluck. Somoene may always go early in the rotation, or someone else always late. So now the lucky guy is responsible for taking all the good scores, and the unlucky guy feels like he's getting shafted by everybody else. In standard character generation, with each person just rolling their own dice, someone may get the short end of the stick, but at least the other players in the group weren't responsible for handing it to them. Possibility 1 - don't make it a random roll. Set some form of order that at least tries to make sure that everyone gets a fair shake - Perhaps the higher the stat a player picks in one pass, the later he goes in teh next pass... Possibility 2 - Don't open up all the stats in each pass. Make only as many stats as their are players available, and mix them up, so there are high and low stas available in each pass, and they don't know for certain exactly what's available. Possibility 3 - make it fully cooperative, rather than competetive. Allow the players, as a group, to shuffle the stas around as they collectively see fit. [/QUOTE]

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