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<blockquote data-quote="Dr_Ruminahui" data-source="post: 5213419" data-attributes="member: 81104">I did a hybrid method - roll 4d6 drop the lowest, and if you don't like your array, you can do point buy instead.&nbsp; Worked fine, and helped take away some of the MAD of the characters, who are all PH1 classes.&nbsp; As it turned out, the taclord, challadin and laser cleric all likes their rolls (none had an 18, though they all had a 17 as their high stat and the challadin had 2 of them).&nbsp; The wizard rolled fine, but liked his point buy stats better (gave him the group's only pre-racial 18), and the TW ranger rolled like pants, and likewise went point buy.So, I agree with the above posters who said that point buy may be more beneficial, at least sometimes.&nbsp; I know that (as I stated before) that when I got a second chance to remake my 3.5 drow sorceror into an actual sorceror rather than a warlock (which is how I did her up back when we started prior to PH2), I ditched my rolled stats for point buy, despite the rolled stats giving me &quot;more&quot; bonuses, as point buy let me put those bonuses where they were more useful.That said, my campaign was the first time my gaming group had made 4e characters from scratch (as opposed to &quot;converting&quot; from 3.5 and taking our rolled 3.5 stat arrays, which was the group's first 4e campaign and the one with the above mentioned drow sorceress), so we took rolling to be the norm.&nbsp; Now that I know otherwise, if I were to do it again I think I would use simply point buy and forget about rolling - especially given the better attribute management of the PH2 and PH3 classes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dr_Ruminahui, post: 5213419, member: 81104"] I did a hybrid method - roll 4d6 drop the lowest, and if you don't like your array, you can do point buy instead. Worked fine, and helped take away some of the MAD of the characters, who are all PH1 classes. As it turned out, the taclord, challadin and laser cleric all likes their rolls (none had an 18, though they all had a 17 as their high stat and the challadin had 2 of them). The wizard rolled fine, but liked his point buy stats better (gave him the group's only pre-racial 18), and the TW ranger rolled like pants, and likewise went point buy. So, I agree with the above posters who said that point buy may be more beneficial, at least sometimes. I know that (as I stated before) that when I got a second chance to remake my 3.5 drow sorceror into an actual sorceror rather than a warlock (which is how I did her up back when we started prior to PH2), I ditched my rolled stats for point buy, despite the rolled stats giving me "more" bonuses, as point buy let me put those bonuses where they were more useful. That said, my campaign was the first time my gaming group had made 4e characters from scratch (as opposed to "converting" from 3.5 and taking our rolled 3.5 stat arrays, which was the group's first 4e campaign and the one with the above mentioned drow sorceress), so we took rolling to be the norm. Now that I know otherwise, if I were to do it again I think I would use simply point buy and forget about rolling - especially given the better attribute management of the PH2 and PH3 classes. [/QUOTE]

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