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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chiaroscuro23" data-source="post: 2663072" data-attributes="member: 15371">It's a huge, important permanent part of the character that impacts survival directly. I expect there's also a lot of cheating (in some quarters) on stats. I'd bet that some people who would never cheat on a roll in game would cheat on stats because it's so permanent.Hit Points are even worse, because unlike stats there's no bell curve to group scores around the mean--they're an entirely linear distribution. So it takes away all the player's control over how tough their PC, and makes it not just a little random, but VERY random.That said, I don't think my players cheat. My reasons are more dislike of randomness and desire for PC survival generally.-C.</blockquote>