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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6405254" data-attributes="member: 4937">I quite understand that.&nbsp; I also am fine with having 6's and 7's on occasion.&nbsp; I'd even say its one of the things I tend to miss about random generation is you tended to see and play more weird characters.&nbsp; But again, if you aren't fine with a hopeless character, if you think that there are characters you can't work with then you need to admit that you don't like randomness.&nbsp; What you really want is a character generation system that delivers to you a character you can work with, something random generation is never guaranteed to do.&nbsp; Even if you do 9d6 take best 3, there is a good chance that the score will be below 16 - which defeats the whole intention of the method which is to ensure that you get a 16+ in your prime requisite.&nbsp;&nbsp; If that is what the real intention is, stop pretending to like random.I think you actually understand how central all that is to my argument, because you do actually say what you must say if you honestly like random:Ok.&nbsp; If you like bad results, then I suggest that you do 3d4 straight up down the line, while the rest of the table do method III (36 3d6, in groups of 6, take best result from each group straight up).&nbsp; And you can use your 3d4 straight up for every new character as well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 6405254, member: 4937"] I quite understand that. I also am fine with having 6's and 7's on occasion. I'd even say its one of the things I tend to miss about random generation is you tended to see and play more weird characters. But again, if you aren't fine with a hopeless character, if you think that there are characters you can't work with then you need to admit that you don't like randomness. What you really want is a character generation system that delivers to you a character you can work with, something random generation is never guaranteed to do. Even if you do 9d6 take best 3, there is a good chance that the score will be below 16 - which defeats the whole intention of the method which is to ensure that you get a 16+ in your prime requisite. If that is what the real intention is, stop pretending to like random. I think you actually understand how central all that is to my argument, because you do actually say what you must say if you honestly like random: Ok. If you like bad results, then I suggest that you do 3d4 straight up down the line, while the rest of the table do method III (36 3d6, in groups of 6, take best result from each group straight up). And you can use your 3d4 straight up for every new character as well. [/QUOTE]

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