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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 9483970" data-attributes="member: 54629">Yeah nah. Any time I've had to roll for my PC's ability scores, my dice have inevitably undermined me, and I've ended up with the weakest PC in the group. I just don't enjoy that. I like to play competent characters, and having a debilitating weakness isn't something I'm interested in roleplaying.As a DM, I've been using point buy / standard array and fixed hit points for the better part of 20 years now. It's never felt sterile to me.That being said, I did experiment with a hybrid roll + point buy approach for a 3.5e campaign once. The idea was that you'd roll (4d6 drop lowest) for three ability scores, subtract the point buy value of those rolls from a total point amount,* then use the remainder to purchase the other three scores. A roll of 8 or below was worth 0 points, while a roll of 18 was worth 16 points. This allowed for greater variance (scores below 8 or above 15) while retaining some measure of fairness.*Looking at my notes for that campaign, I was obviously feeling very generous back then because I gave them a pool of 36 points!</blockquote>