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<blockquote data-quote="airwalkrr" data-source="post: 6056694" data-attributes="member: 12460">When I run D&amp;D I almost always require rolls (usually 4d6, drop the lowest). But I run Rifts as much as I run D&amp;D, and when I run Rifts, I always have players roll 3d6 in order for all eight of their attributes. It always creates interesting characters. With eight attributes you are virtually guaranteed to have a weak point, and not even having control over what that weak point is really brings out the creativity in players. In Rifts, I do everything the hard way.As it turns out, in my current Rifts campaign something very quirky and interesting happened. One of the players rolled up a 5 for her Physical Endurance, which meant that her character had a 50% chance of being a germophobe and was very susceptible to infectious disease and illness of all kinds. Later in the campaign, the player characters stumbled across a mystical ancient tome called the Book of Heroes. This event heralded the dramatic transformation of the characters. They each received one random super power rolled from a table of 100 random super powers. And guess which one the germophobe got? Invulnerability to disease, radiation, poison and toxins! It was a fantastic result and it happened entirely randomly. It was as if fate reached out and made what was once that character's weakness her greatest strength! A cool story like that never would have happened if the players had been able to choose their own stats via some sort of point buy. Randomness can be very exciting and create some very excellent stories.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="airwalkrr, post: 6056694, member: 12460"] When I run D&D I almost always require rolls (usually 4d6, drop the lowest). But I run Rifts as much as I run D&D, and when I run Rifts, I always have players roll 3d6 in order for all eight of their attributes. It always creates interesting characters. With eight attributes you are virtually guaranteed to have a weak point, and not even having control over what that weak point is really brings out the creativity in players. In Rifts, I do everything the hard way. As it turns out, in my current Rifts campaign something very quirky and interesting happened. One of the players rolled up a 5 for her Physical Endurance, which meant that her character had a 50% chance of being a germophobe and was very susceptible to infectious disease and illness of all kinds. Later in the campaign, the player characters stumbled across a mystical ancient tome called the Book of Heroes. This event heralded the dramatic transformation of the characters. They each received one random super power rolled from a table of 100 random super powers. And guess which one the germophobe got? Invulnerability to disease, radiation, poison and toxins! It was a fantastic result and it happened entirely randomly. It was as if fate reached out and made what was once that character's weakness her greatest strength! A cool story like that never would have happened if the players had been able to choose their own stats via some sort of point buy. Randomness can be very exciting and create some very excellent stories. [/QUOTE]

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