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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 9190524" data-attributes="member: 22779">I'd say that the proof is in the fact that very, very few groups actually USE die rolled characters.&nbsp; I'll be dollars to donuts that if you canvassed the PC's in your campaigns stretching back ten years, they would, almost guaranteed, be statistically ... unlikely.&nbsp; If you repeated that for a hundred groups, the unlikeliness of the die rolled characters would only become more and more pronounced.&nbsp; IOW, the only reason people die roll characters is to play higher stat characters.&nbsp; They might not phrase it that way.&nbsp; They might have a hundred different justifications for it, but, again, dollars to donuts, die rolling = statistically unlikely characters.&nbsp; While, yes, yes, I understand that this or that group might not, overall?&nbsp; Die rolling is only random insofar as you might be a little or a lot higher than the baseline for the game.It is virtually never so you can play lower than the baseline.&nbsp; Note, I've been doing point buy since 3e, so, it's been pretty close to about half and half for die roll vs point buy for me.&nbsp; Declaring that die rolling is the &quot;most common&quot; does require some proof as well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 9190524, member: 22779"] I'd say that the proof is in the fact that very, very few groups actually USE die rolled characters. I'll be dollars to donuts that if you canvassed the PC's in your campaigns stretching back ten years, they would, almost guaranteed, be statistically ... unlikely. If you repeated that for a hundred groups, the unlikeliness of the die rolled characters would only become more and more pronounced. IOW, the only reason people die roll characters is to play higher stat characters. They might not phrase it that way. They might have a hundred different justifications for it, but, again, dollars to donuts, die rolling = statistically unlikely characters. While, yes, yes, I understand that this or that group might not, overall? Die rolling is only random insofar as you might be a little or a lot higher than the baseline for the game. It is virtually never so you can play lower than the baseline. Note, I've been doing point buy since 3e, so, it's been pretty close to about half and half for die roll vs point buy for me. Declaring that die rolling is the "most common" does require some proof as well. [/QUOTE]

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