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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 6366579" data-attributes="member: 29398">[3D][/3D]That risks generating lots of characters with some pretty low stats.&nbsp; The average of 5d6 drop 2 lowest is about 13, the average of 5d6 drop two best would be about 8; so expect lots of 5s and 6s and 7s.One advantage of our using basically the same character generation method (5d6 drop 2 lowest, arrange as desired) since about the last ice age is that I can - and have - run the numbers to see whether starting stats make much if any difference to a character's eventual career length.&nbsp; What I found was that for the most part your starting stats average has only a very slight impact on projected career length* (counted by number of adventures done); with the variance possibly being entirely due to players tending to throw away characters with what they see as inferior stats.* - which is one reason I don't at all mind stats being done by random roll.Lan-&quot;I probably still have the actual numbers around here somewhere if anyone cares&quot;-efan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 6366579, member: 29398"] [3D][/3D]That risks generating lots of characters with some pretty low stats. The average of 5d6 drop 2 lowest is about 13, the average of 5d6 drop two best would be about 8; so expect lots of 5s and 6s and 7s. One advantage of our using basically the same character generation method (5d6 drop 2 lowest, arrange as desired) since about the last ice age is that I can - and have - run the numbers to see whether starting stats make much if any difference to a character's eventual career length. What I found was that for the most part your starting stats average has only a very slight impact on projected career length* (counted by number of adventures done); with the variance possibly being entirely due to players tending to throw away characters with what they see as inferior stats. * - which is one reason I don't at all mind stats being done by random roll. Lan-"I probably still have the actual numbers around here somewhere if anyone cares"-efan [/QUOTE]

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