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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 4964662" data-attributes="member: 35909">I agree with everything you said in general, but to be fair, he did drop a 13 into Con before racial mods, and needed two high scores because he's a dual caster, so I really don't think it was much an issue of min-maxing.  I do not agree with the OP not increasing Con at level 4 or 8, though.I don't know if stats were rolled or it was point buy...but I'm going to go out on a limb and assume any DM that doesn't let you reroll ones on HD rolls* probably also forced them to roll their stats.  I would be amazed if he allowed point buy out of a sense of fairness and keeping everyone on a level playing field, but then said, "yeah, and even though HD rolls also affect you your entire PC's career...I'm going to just make you eat whatever godawful rolls luck gives you."  So...what I'm seeing is...OP put his two highest scores into his casting stats.  Which is perfectly normal.  He then put a 13 in Con, which as likely the third highest stat he rolled.  No min-maxing here.*Much as I loathe DMs that still don't do point buy, the DMs that don't ever allow HD rerolls really have a special place of enmity with me.  If I was playing a Barbarian and the DM told me I had to keep that 1 I rolled on my d12, I'd tell him where he could go shove the die.  Lord knows warrior types are so much more powerful than the casters, heavens forbid we actually make sure their higher HD actually end up meaning something even if the player happens to have crappy luck.  The wizard's 6 rolls came out to a higher total than the Barbarian's, even though it was a d4?  So what?  Even if he has lower hp, I think the fact that he should be tougher than the wizard is consolation enough.  Learn to roleplay and stop obsessing over the numbers, jerk!/rant.  Just be glad you didn't have much to lose on your HD rolls, I guess is my point...</blockquote>

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