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

[el-remmen]

Anytime, anywhere.

I have some new ideas.

 

[Seramus]

4d6 drop lowest.
Record each "set" of stats.
Players can choose ANY of the sets.

I adjust monsters to suit.

 

[Lanefan]

For some folks, all characters in the party need to be equally "good" at things (have equally good stats, in this case) for the players to have equal amounts of fun.

They don't have to be equal IME but they have to have the chance of being equal. If the chance doesn't pay off this time, so be it: there's always next time.

 

[Swarmkeeper]

4d6 drop lowest.
Record each "set" of stats.
Players can choose ANY of the sets.

I adjust monsters to suit.

Say more about “I adjust monsters to suit.” Do you mean that you buff or nerf monsters based on your evaluation of the power of the party ability scores?

 

[Cruentus]

3d6 down the line. That's how I roll. I played in a B/X game recently where my highest ability score was a 12, we reached 5th level, I had a fun time and would like to continue with that character.

We're playing Symbaroum next, and using their array (which you can then modify). I found it very hard to settle on my ability scores as they are all important, hardest stat generation I've experienced in awhile (I'm still second guessing my choices).

 

[Lanefan]

Small clarification: then then entire table shouldn't roll stats.

So one player who doesn't want to roll stats is enough to prevent the whole table from rolling?

Seems a bit much.

Flip side: if one player doesn't want to use any other method than rolling, should that be enough to force everyone to roll?

 

[Lakesidefantasy]

This does a good job of summing up why I moved away from rolling for stats. It's not that the people who would have less fun if the dice shafted them are bad people or bad TRPGers, it's that they'd be having less fun, and why would I want that?

What about the people who like to roll? Aren't they having less fun?

 

[AlViking]

What about the people who like to roll? Aren't they having less fun?

For the whole 3 minutes it take to roll stats? When I hope to play the character for a year or more? I think it's worth skipping the "excitement" of rolling.

 

[Seramus]

Do you mean that you buff or nerf monsters based on your evaluation of the power of the party ability scores?

Yes. You get the fun and randomness of actual dice, and the fairness of everyone being able to pick whichever set they want, but it does tend to result in slightly stronger characters if one or more players rolls high. So I buff (or nerf) the encounters based on my evaluation of the power of the party's ability scores - sometimes the monsters do a little more damage, or have an extra monster, or an extra ability if it fits the narrative, etc.

 

[jdrakeh]

Standard Array on D&D Beyond. I haven't played D&D in about two years and I just wanted the least fuss method.