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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grayhawk" data-source="post: 1813549" data-attributes="member: 11288">No, you can't go higher than 18: And even if you start with the relatively high Elite Array, only one score can go to 18.If you don't like the re-rolling bit, here's a couple of variants:A: If a roll makes a score go beyond 18, the roll doesn't count and you don't get to re-roll (this meshes with how point buy puts a higher cost on higher scores. Of course, you could still be lucky, get an 18 and roll increases to other scores as well.)B: If using the Elite Array as your starting point, only roll 3d6 for extra points (this way, a Fighter putting his 15 in strenght will need to roll all '1's on his 3 rolls to get an 18.This way, a score of 18 is still a possibility, but very rare.)Personally, I believe the game is balanced towards characters using the Elite Array, so I prefer a method that generates scores in that ballpark. As such, I feel that the '14,13,12,11,10,9 array +6d6, '1's go to Str, etc' is the best option, as it only nets you a point-total 2 higher than the Elite Array.If you feel that characters should start play with at least a 15 in their most important stat, you could add this rule:If (after rolling the 6d6) you didn't get an increase to the stat you put your 14 in, you may move 1 rolled point to this stat.Of course, if you have players allergic to scores with negative modifiers, you could use the same rule, replacing the '14' with a '9'.Hm, I guess a single rule could take care of both situations:Arrange following array as desired: 14,13,12,11,10,9.Roll 6d6. A '1' means +1 to Str, a '2' means +1 to Dex, etc. A score can't go beyond 18.After rolling all 6d6, you may pick 1 roll and move it to a stat of your choosing, but you may not increase a stat beyond 15 this way.(This makes it possible to remove a negative modifier, bring a 14 to a 15, but not a 17 to an 18 - only the luck of the dice will get you that high.)Ok, I'm all done now  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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