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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8102991" data-attributes="member: 7006">The thing that kills me about these kinds of threads is that I honestly don't know why anyone actually cares what people's stats are!CON is always the third-highest stat?&nbsp; So what!&nbsp; What is GAINED by someone having it be their 5th or 6th highest stat?&nbsp; Does their character suddenly become interesting now that they have a low CON?&nbsp; I don't think so.&nbsp; Yeah, they have a lower amount of HP and thus they fall down more often.&nbsp; Okay.&nbsp; Great.&nbsp; Does that make this particular PC now a compelling character?&nbsp; Not in the slightest!&nbsp; You want an interesting character... the player needs to imbue him or her with interesting character details that actually get roleplayed.&nbsp; And that has to come from the player and the player's creativity... NOT from whatever numbers appear on a character sheet.I swear, it's like DMs are sitting around thinking to themselves &quot;If ONLY I had a PC in my game whose three highest stats were STR, DEX, and INT!&nbsp; WOW would that make this character cool and original!&nbsp; Why can't I ever see that?&nbsp; How can I jerry-rig the game so that someone will have this stat combo?!?&quot;Well, guess what?&nbsp; Even if there was some build out there that this kind of array would be useful for... if your player is just a bland and disinterested die roller, that stat array ain't gonna matter.&nbsp; Dull players make dull characters regardless of the numbers written down on a sheet of paper.&nbsp; And people would be better served to remember that, rather than continually try and forcefeed these odd stat combos together in an effort to bring some life to their tables.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 8102991, member: 7006"] The thing that kills me about these kinds of threads is that I honestly don't know why [I]anyone actually cares what people's stats are![/I] CON is always the third-highest stat? So what! What is GAINED by someone having it be their 5th or 6th highest stat? Does their character suddenly become i[I]nterestin[/I]g now that they have a low CON? I don't think so. Yeah, they have a lower amount of HP and thus they fall down more often. Okay. Great. Does that make this particular PC now a [I]compelling[/I] character? Not in the slightest! You want an interesting character... the player needs to imbue him or her with interesting character details that actually get roleplayed. And that has to come from the player and the player's creativity... NOT from whatever numbers appear on a character sheet. I swear, it's like DMs are sitting around thinking to themselves "If ONLY I had a PC in my game whose three highest stats were STR, DEX, and INT! WOW would that make this character cool and original! Why can't I ever see that? How can I jerry-rig the game so that someone will have this stat combo?!?" Well, guess what? Even if there was some build out there that this kind of array would be useful for... if your player is just a bland and disinterested die roller, tha[I]t stat array ain't gonna matter[/I]. Dull players make dull characters regardless of the numbers written down on a sheet of paper. And people would be better served to remember that, rather than continually try and forcefeed these odd stat combos together in an effort to bring some life to their tables. [/QUOTE]

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