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<blockquote data-quote="Obryn" data-source="post: 5143179" data-attributes="member: 11821">Method I for stat generation in the 1e DMG was 4d6, drop low, arrange to taste.&nbsp; And, from every survey I've seen online, this was very common at most tables; few people playing 1e used 3d6-straight.&nbsp; The stat tables basically stop making sense if you use 3d6 straight because most mechanical differences are far out on the periphery - usually 3-6 and 15-18.Also, there wasn't really a sense that the &quot;base classes were it.&quot;&nbsp; Even before Unearthed Arcana, you had a series of new classes released in Dragon.&nbsp; Many of these were called &quot;NPC-only,&quot; but given their XP tables and the like, they were pretty regularly used in play, too, as I understand it.(It's been a while, but from what I've read recently, 2e moved back to 3d6-straight as the normal means of character generation.&nbsp; But 2e also had a strong &quot;Rath Effect&quot; built into the game, where players were encouraged to run mechanically bland characters.)-O</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Obryn, post: 5143179, member: 11821"] Method I for stat generation in the 1e DMG was 4d6, drop low, arrange to taste. And, from every survey I've seen online, this was very common at most tables; few people playing 1e used 3d6-straight. The stat tables basically stop making sense if you use 3d6 straight because most mechanical differences are far out on the periphery - usually 3-6 and 15-18. Also, there wasn't really a sense that the "base classes were it." Even before Unearthed Arcana, you had a series of new classes released in Dragon. Many of these were called "NPC-only," but given their XP tables and the like, they were pretty regularly used in play, too, as I understand it. (It's been a while, but from what I've read recently, 2e moved back to 3d6-straight as the normal means of character generation. But 2e also had a strong "Rath Effect" built into the game, where players were encouraged to run mechanically bland characters.) -O [/QUOTE]

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