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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8069335" data-attributes="member: 29398">It's a bit more complicated until you get used to doing it, but what we did was put each stat for each race on its own bell curve and then when you're rolling up a non-Human you use a table to convert each stat to the same relative place on that race's bell curve.So, for example, while Humans have a 3-18 range in everything Hobbit strength only goes from 3-16.  So, if you roll a 7 in strength it stays a 7, if you roll an 11 it becomes a 10, and if you roll a 16 it becomes 14.Another example: Elf Dexterity goes from 6-18.  So, roll a 3 and it becomes a 6.  Roll an 8 and it'll jump to 10.  A rolled 13 goes to 14 but a rolled 17 stays at 17.If the bell curve for a particular stat happens to be 3-18 (e.g. Hobbit charisma) then whatever you roll stays as it is.</blockquote>