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<blockquote data-quote="CroBob" data-source="post: 6056838" data-attributes="member: 6683307">I'm flying with the 15 point buy scenerio, where your character is essentially guaranteed to suck. Organic 3d6 could be alright. But still, altering the difficulty seems like fake difficulty (or easiness, as it were) to me. If your stats are lower, so the DM reduces DCs and uses lower CR enemies... why not just use regular methods for stats and not make things easier? If you want to, go ahead, but it doesn't seem like the feel would be any different except your saves are going to necessarily be bad, even against lower CR enemies, and you won't qualify for the fun feats. Granted, how saves work in 3.5 is bad anyway, since they increase slower than DCs do.Anyway, altering difficulty is the only real &quot;fix&quot; you mentioned, but that also essentially negates the lowered character ability. Everything else it doesn't really matter how you get the stats you do. Role-play heavy will have the same number of necessary rolls for whatever, and you can do it with 2 point or 99 to get your stats. It doesn't matter. The DCs will either be adjusted to your characters' abilities, or they will not be.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CroBob, post: 6056838, member: 6683307"] I'm flying with the 15 point buy scenerio, where your character is essentially guaranteed to suck. Organic 3d6 could be alright. But still, altering the difficulty seems like fake difficulty (or easiness, as it were) to me. If your stats are lower, so the DM reduces DCs and uses lower CR enemies... why not just use regular methods for stats and not make things easier? If you want to, go ahead, but it doesn't seem like the feel would be any different except your saves are going to necessarily be bad, even against lower CR enemies, and you won't qualify for the fun feats. Granted, how saves work in 3.5 is bad anyway, since they increase slower than DCs do. Anyway, altering difficulty is the only real "fix" you mentioned, but that also essentially negates the lowered character ability. Everything else it doesn't really matter how you get the stats you do. Role-play heavy will have the same number of necessary rolls for whatever, and you can do it with 2 point or 99 to get your stats. It doesn't matter. The DCs will either be adjusted to your characters' abilities, or they will not be. [/QUOTE]

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