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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 8570221" data-attributes="member: 7026617">My perception on this may be biased because back when I was playing OD&D and RuneQuest (the only games we ever played extensively with random roll) there were interlocking groups of players and GMs and amidst them probably hundreds of characters were generated (in part because of the mortality level, in part because people were sometimes playing more than one character, and in part because they rotated them out).  I'm not completely uneducated in probability and it would seem unlikely when you're talking about that many rolls that they wouldn't show at least noticable trends.Which doesn't mean that an individual player couldn't still either end up hosed or kissed on the lips by the gods, of course.  Aberrations are aberrations.  But then, as I noted there were various techniques for working around that from outright cheating to getting annoying substandard characters killed at first opportunity.</blockquote>