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<blockquote data-quote="Leatherhead" data-source="post: 7795702" data-attributes="member: 53176">Why? About two years ago I just gave up having players make their own characters, mostly due to wildly different levels of system mastery. I ended up giving everyone the Standard Array, ending up with no less than a 14 and no more than 16 in their primary attacking stat. Every character is functional, every character has a weakness.But here is a way to really neutralize the majority of problems that rolling can produce:Have them roll for their Class and Race first.Hard set their Primary Stat to 14, ignore any racial modifiers. Soft set their Constitution to 13, allow racial modifiers.Roll whatever else you want for their rest of their stats.Everyone is competent in their role, everyone could have theoretically survived childhood without stubbing their toe and bleeding to death. And all you really have to watch out for are the Gish Subclasses.&nbsp; But I have a feeling that capitalizing on your secondary stat is part of the intended flow of such a campaign anyway.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Leatherhead, post: 7795702, member: 53176"] Why? About two years ago I just gave up having players make their own characters, mostly due to wildly different levels of system mastery. I ended up giving everyone the Standard Array, ending up with no less than a 14 and no more than 16 in their primary attacking stat. Every character is functional, every character has a weakness. But here is a way to really neutralize the majority of problems that rolling can produce: Have them roll for their Class and Race first. Hard set their Primary Stat to 14, ignore any racial modifiers. Soft set their Constitution to 13, allow racial modifiers. Roll whatever else you want for their rest of their stats. Everyone is competent in their role, everyone could have theoretically survived childhood without stubbing their toe and bleeding to death. And all you really have to watch out for are the Gish Subclasses. But I have a feeling that capitalizing on your secondary stat is part of the intended flow of such a campaign anyway. [/QUOTE]

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