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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 9008908" data-attributes="member: 6801845"><p>A cookie is still a chocolate chip cookie whether it has 4 chocolate chips or 8. A gingerbread man is still recognizable as a gingerbread man even if one has more frosting than the other. </p><p></p><p>Practically every wizard will have their highest ability score in intelligence. The attribute scores are not the same, the relative values of where people put the ability scores are. If you roll for ability scores randomly one PC will likely be a significantly better wizard than the other. At the same time, no two PCs of the same class will be played exactly the same because different players are running them even if the ability scores are identical.</p><p></p><p>In our game yesterday, we had a player not make it at the last minute. Because of where we were, we had my wife run the PC temporarily. How my wife ran the PC, what spells they cast and abilities they used, were significantly different with exactly the same character. I don't believe in cookie cutter PCs because I've never seen them.</p><p></p><p>And ... now I want a cookie. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite4" alt=":mad:" title="Mad :mad:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":mad:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 9008908, member: 6801845"] A cookie is still a chocolate chip cookie whether it has 4 chocolate chips or 8. A gingerbread man is still recognizable as a gingerbread man even if one has more frosting than the other. Practically every wizard will have their highest ability score in intelligence. The attribute scores are not the same, the relative values of where people put the ability scores are. If you roll for ability scores randomly one PC will likely be a significantly better wizard than the other. At the same time, no two PCs of the same class will be played exactly the same because different players are running them even if the ability scores are identical. In our game yesterday, we had a player not make it at the last minute. Because of where we were, we had my wife run the PC temporarily. How my wife ran the PC, what spells they cast and abilities they used, were significantly different with exactly the same character. I don't believe in cookie cutter PCs because I've never seen them. And ... now I want a cookie. :mad: [/QUOTE]
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