D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats?

[Lakesidefantasy]

Do people actually play the characters that roll poorly though? Or do you have a minimum of some sort? Because one of the issues I've seen in the past is that if a player is the DM's buddy (or worse yet love interest) the rules for rolling are more, shall we say, lenient.

If it is truly roll once and you get what you get and no your character is not suicidally brave then I'd still pick point buy.

Well that's just it, if you don't like what you rolled you can choose Point Buy instead. But yes, you get one chance at rolling.

 

[billd91]

The fact that you want to put a normative judgment on it tells me we have very different perspectives on its relative importance.

I'm not sure I've ever seen anything described as an "illusory pretense" without that being pejorative. Seems like a label that comes loaded with judgmental implications to me.

 

[Dbudzik]

As Crom intended.

 

[payn]

As Crom intended.

“Crom grant me an 18 or to hell with you!!!”

 

[Stormonu]

So many other games have given up rolling stats, it sometimes make me wonder if rolling for stats in D&D is really worth it, and it might just be better to do some form of point buy. Or perhaps do something akin to Star Trek Adventures/Traveller, where you build your character not by merely assigning points but by building stats through your background choices.

That said, my last character was done 4d6, drop lowest and select which attribute to assign to.

 

[Clint_L]

If you like it, it's worth it, right? It's only a game.