Eliminating stat items

[Viktyr Gehrig]

Do you have a link?

I dislike the way this method tends to cause stat arrays to flatten. It becomes more cost effective to raise your low scores than to invest in the diminishing returns of a high score. In your "one high score" example, a character could have 28, 14, 14, 14, 14, 10 instead of 30, 10, 10, 10, 10, 8.

http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=145101

And your argument is actually one of the reasons I like this method. While I understand that some people will want to put everything into one score, I don't like the idea of a truly epic hero (not neccessarily Epic) being stupid, or utterly non-charismatic. It doesn't make sense to me.

Yes, the one-high score build could buy four fourteens and a ten for the difference between a 28 and a 30. That's the logic the point-buy system was built upon, and I agree with it.

As for racial modifiers, I would remove them before calculating point buy costs, and then re-apply them, so that those +2/+4 bonuses become more and more valuable at higher levels. (I'd use the same logic with the ability score bonus from racial levels.)