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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9190366" data-attributes="member: 6801228">I think the larger point is asking why everyone was cheating. Taking a personal 5e example... I'd say around 80% of all people I have played with have never rolled Hit Dice. We always take the average. Because you pretty much have worse odds beating the average roll than of rolling lower. The only time I see people roll consistently is when we have rules in place that if you roll below average, you get the average. If you have a rule set, and everyone is ignoring the rules to play a version that works perfectly fine, but is technically cheating... what value does that rule set have? I'd argue very little, because no one is actually following it. It just becomes performative.</blockquote>