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<blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 8659172" data-attributes="member: 23751">Oh, I know.&nbsp; That's why the winky face was there. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :P"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />That's why many games that I've played in where rolling happened had a floor for the total stat point number(not point buy).&nbsp; So the first set added up to 93(higher I think than I've ever seen rolled with 4d6-L), and the second set added up to 71.&nbsp; What those tables did was either have you re-roll until you got 76(the usual number, but sometimes 72 or 80) or just roll d6s and add +1 to the numbers rolled.&nbsp; The latter method is what I see done more often, because 1) it saves time as it avoids sometimes a lot of re-rolls, and 2) it avoids someone rolling 6 times below 76 and then getting an 85.&nbsp; The latter method would look like, this.&nbsp; Since 71 is 5 lower than the 76 minimum, I rolled 5d6 and got 1, 1, 3, 4, 4.&nbsp; That 14 becomes a 16, the second 13 becomes a 14, and the 12 becomes a 14.&nbsp; So that's now 16, 14, 14, 13, 10, 9 for a total of 76.&nbsp; Usually out of 5 players you will see 3-4 at 76-79, and 1 or 2 at the low 80s.&nbsp; It would be very, very extreme to end up with that 93 and some 76s at the same table.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Maxperson, post: 8659172, member: 23751"] Oh, I know. That's why the winky face was there. :P That's why many games that I've played in where rolling happened had a floor for the total stat point number(not point buy). So the first set added up to 93(higher I think than I've ever seen rolled with 4d6-L), and the second set added up to 71. What those tables did was either have you re-roll until you got 76(the usual number, but sometimes 72 or 80) or just roll d6s and add +1 to the numbers rolled. The latter method is what I see done more often, because 1) it saves time as it avoids sometimes a lot of re-rolls, and 2) it avoids someone rolling 6 times below 76 and then getting an 85. The latter method would look like, this. Since 71 is 5 lower than the 76 minimum, I rolled 5d6 and got 1, 1, 3, 4, 4. That 14 becomes a 16, the second 13 becomes a 14, and the 12 becomes a 14. So that's now 16, 14, 14, 13, 10, 9 for a total of 76. Usually out of 5 players you will see 3-4 at 76-79, and 1 or 2 at the low 80s. It would be very, very extreme to end up with that 93 and some 76s at the same table. [/QUOTE]

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