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<blockquote data-quote="ichabod" data-source="post: 9191869" data-attributes="member: 1257">I think there's going to be a variety of answers that depend on the player/table. The problem people tend to have with rolling is you can have a wide gap in ability scores/bonuses. If you have five players and you do 4d6 drop low, you can expect a difference of about 16 between the highest ability score total and the lowest ability score total. Your method would reduced that drastically, to about 2 (based on randomly selecting from all 2,277 arrays meeting your criteria). But there's a range of possibilities between 2 and 16, and different tables are going to have different desired levels of between player variability. Some may be comfortable with more than 16. I think all these different ways to roll dice are looking for the value that the table is comfortable with. Some want 0, and so everyone plays with the same array. Point buy can allow for some difference, but having a lower total is chosen by the player. They're all valid choices, it's just what you are comfortable with.Me, I would generally be fine with what you are talking about, but I might use different restrictions. 5, 5, 13, 17, 17, 17 fits those criteria, but I'm not sure that's the sort of array I want to play with. But I think you are talking about a more general case where you 1000 decent arrays without a lot of variability between them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ichabod, post: 9191869, member: 1257"] I think there's going to be a variety of answers that depend on the player/table. The problem people tend to have with rolling is you can have a wide gap in ability scores/bonuses. If you have five players and you do 4d6 drop low, you can expect a difference of about 16 between the highest ability score total and the lowest ability score total. Your method would reduced that drastically, to about 2 (based on randomly selecting from all 2,277 arrays meeting your criteria). But there's a range of possibilities between 2 and 16, and different tables are going to have different desired levels of between player variability. Some may be comfortable with more than 16. I think all these different ways to roll dice are looking for the value that the table is comfortable with. Some want 0, and so everyone plays with the same array. Point buy can allow for some difference, but having a lower total is chosen by the player. They're all valid choices, it's just what you are comfortable with. Me, I would generally be fine with what you are talking about, but I might use different restrictions. 5, 5, 13, 17, 17, 17 fits those criteria, but I'm not sure that's the sort of array I want to play with. But I think you are talking about a more general case where you 1000 decent arrays without a lot of variability between them. [/QUOTE]

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