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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 9823897" data-attributes="member: 50987">Folks get pretty creative with character generation.  I've seen a lot of house rules for rolling stats over the years...<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">All stats are 1d12+1d6 (and reroll any 1s)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">All stats are 1d8+10</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">All stats are 2d6+6 (basically the 3d6 method, except one roll is a guaranteed 6)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Roll 3d6, and reroll any 1s.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Roll 4d6, then adjust if desired (one score gets a +1 and a different score gets -2.  Repeat as much as you like).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">You roll seven ability scores using the 4d6 method, and then keep the best six of them.  Basically you get to trash one result.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Roll 4d6, reroll any nat-1s, and then drop the lowest.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Roll 4d6, reroll your lowest die, and then drop the lowest.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Roll 4d6 and keep all four, then subtract 6.  (but why tho?)</li> </ol>Of them all, I think I like #2 and #3 best.  Still random, but the math is flatter.That said, I don't use any of these methods.  When I'm a player, I prefer to 4d6 method as-written in the PHB...and when I'm in the DM chair, I let each player choose the method they want to use for their character (most choose the 4d6 method, but there's always one guy who opts to use Point Buy or the standard array.)  I've never used, or seen anyone use, a pregen character from the book.</blockquote>

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