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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Azure Trance" data-source="post: 477435" data-attributes="member: 372">So ... I have a dilemmia. When my group first formed, we had a paltry 4 people. With the difficulties and obstacles I knew they would face which were more suited for a higher level or more characters, I was carefree in character generation. More specifically, attributes.See, Night Below suggested it best for 8 level 1 characters or 4 level 2. I had 4 level 1s, with no cleric at the time. I thought what was the harm, it would even the odds and make them more heroic as they face a dozen orcs or something similarily dangerous.Fast forward a few sessions, and I now have seven, which it's now capped at. I actually lost a few of the original characters, but more joined up. And all seven were created the same way. I was aware of it, but became a problem to me when a player asked me if he could re-roll his stats so he could keep up with the group. The player, Don, is actually a great roleplayer. He speaks in a thick, Russian accent like this all the time, yah? You, pansy elf boy, stop singing.Character creation was 4D6, drop the lowest - and roll a D4 to add to your stats afterwards. Harmless twinkie points in the beginning. If you didn't like your stats, reroll another 6x4D6 + D4. A few people opted to do this, garnering much better scores this way (legit). Comparatively speaking, he is weaker. Not that this gives substance to his argument, however. But that 8 he has, ouch. At least it doesn't beat the Dwarfs 7 CHA. I think those are the two lowest scores in the game; other then that it's all 10+ with an amazing plethora of 14s, 16s, 18s, and 20s.Most of the characters do have amazing stats - probably 3-4 out of the 7, with the remainder above average I think. All were legit rolled, but some did roll twice. My question is, I know I'm DM and can do whatever I want ... but whats the best way to approach this? Specifically, take the +D4s I added in the end. I'm don't remember who rolled what on the D4s either, unfortunatly. Some got 1s, other 4s.Their already 2nd level so I don't think I can ask them to reroll them up. Thanks for any advice ... damn me and my powergrabbing tendencies. (Only I'm allowed to power up, and that's the NPCs <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />)</blockquote>

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