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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 9004545" data-attributes="member: 5948">Standard array was around in 3e I'm pretty sure.  If it showed up before that, I'm not aware of it.I haven't done point buy for a long time, it's normally some sort of rolling method with a floor or insurance against very bad results.  Currently in two campaigns, one did 4d6 drop lowest rerolling 1s, the other did 3d6 + 3 capped at 18.  Neither campaign has thrown up any wildly overpowered or underpowered PCs though, so it's a bit hard to know how things would have gone in an extreme case.  We've had two PCs roll a bit under averages, by which i mean nothing over 15.  You really do notice the in-combat difference there when you're in a party with a barbarian with starting Str 20, it's very hard to be effective by comparison.  Both (one of them is my PC) have largely structured themselves as support or skills-based characters to compensate for their relative lack of combat effectiveness.  One is an alchemist artificer focused on buffing, the other is a arcane trickster rogue who spent his feats on getting All The Proficiencies and is really cleaning up now that he got Reliable Talent.</blockquote>