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<blockquote data-quote="Nefrast" data-source="post: 3679608" data-attributes="member: 48209">We use point-buy because it's very fair as everyone starts out with the same &quot;value&quot; of attributes, and his highly customizable to ensure you can play the character you want (sans the &quot;everywhere 18s überchar&quot;).Sébastien Loise from the math department of Mc Gill, CA once did a mathematical comparison of the point-buy system and rolling methods. Sadly the paper &quot;www.math.mcgill.ca/~loisel/dnd-stats.html&quot; is no longer there.He found out &quot;that the standard PHB rolling method yields characters with an average point-buy value of 30.92312858 and a standard deviation of 7.708473537 which 75% of characters having a point-buy value in the range from 23 to 40 (inclusive). The highest probability accors at 28 points, and half the characters have a point-buy value of 30 or less&quot;....&quot;The conclusion is that the standard PHB rolling method will rarely yield really low point-value characters, and often yield characters of a point value somewhere around 31&quot;.I think this is very interesting, and also part of the reason why our group uses the 32-point buy variant and not the 25-point one.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nefrast, post: 3679608, member: 48209"] We use point-buy because it's very fair as everyone starts out with the same "value" of attributes, and his highly customizable to ensure you can play the character you want (sans the "everywhere 18s überchar"). Sébastien Loise from the math department of Mc Gill, CA once did a mathematical comparison of the point-buy system and rolling methods. Sadly the paper "www.math.mcgill.ca/~loisel/dnd-stats.html" is no longer there. He found out "that the standard PHB rolling method yields characters with an average point-buy value of 30.92312858 and a standard deviation of 7.708473537 which 75% of characters having a point-buy value in the range from 23 to 40 (inclusive). The highest probability accors at 28 points, and half the characters have a point-buy value of 30 or less". ... "The conclusion is that the standard PHB rolling method will rarely yield really low point-value characters, and often yield characters of a point value somewhere around 31". I think this is very interesting, and also part of the reason why our group uses the 32-point buy variant and not the 25-point one. [/QUOTE]

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