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

Thread starter CleverNickName
Start date Friday at 4:35 PM

Think back to your last D&D character. Which method did you use to generate ability scores?

I rolled them, using the rules as-written or a variant thereof.
Votes: 50 41.7%
I used Point-buy, as-written or some variant of it.
Votes: 37 30.8%
I used a fixed array, either the one in the book or a custom version of it.
Votes: 31 25.8%
I used a pre-generated character.
Votes: 2 1.7%

Clint_L

Legend

Today at 6:38 AM

#201

"Life is sometimes crappy and unfair and so sometimes your RPG character should be too" is not a compelling argument for me. But there is nothing stopping players from choosing worse scores if they want to experience that.