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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6366622" data-attributes="member: 22424"><p>Yep, I've seen that. But with point buy, what I've <em>also</em> seen is that very often there's one System Expert at the table who is capable of optimising his scores to within an inch of their life, while there is frequently one or more players at the table who (either accidentally or deliberately) assign sub-optimal scores to their stats - very often because they outright refuse to take a negative modifier on any score.</p><p></p><p>The resulting power disparity is not noticably different from the "good rolls vs bad rolls" situation, except that the guy who gets the benefit from that also gets the power boost from being the System Expert for the rest of the campaign as well.</p><p></p><p>Do you have any thoughts on how to resolve that? Or is that a feature rather than a bug?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I did this (but arrange to suit rather than in order) for a few short campaigns, and it worked okay. But it did seem to throw up characters with one <em>very</em> low stat with distressing frequency - somehow the 'good' cards and the 'poor' cards managed to clump together, so players would often drop a '4' or '5' from one stat, and end up with 3-2-2-2 in another. 'Course that was also in 3e, so those stats then got hit with a further -2 racial modifier in most cases. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="delericho, post: 6366622, member: 22424"] Yep, I've seen that. But with point buy, what I've [i]also[/i] seen is that very often there's one System Expert at the table who is capable of optimising his scores to within an inch of their life, while there is frequently one or more players at the table who (either accidentally or deliberately) assign sub-optimal scores to their stats - very often because they outright refuse to take a negative modifier on any score. The resulting power disparity is not noticably different from the "good rolls vs bad rolls" situation, except that the guy who gets the benefit from that also gets the power boost from being the System Expert for the rest of the campaign as well. Do you have any thoughts on how to resolve that? Or is that a feature rather than a bug? I did this (but arrange to suit rather than in order) for a few short campaigns, and it worked okay. But it did seem to throw up characters with one [i]very[/i] low stat with distressing frequency - somehow the 'good' cards and the 'poor' cards managed to clump together, so players would often drop a '4' or '5' from one stat, and end up with 3-2-2-2 in another. 'Course that was also in 3e, so those stats then got hit with a further -2 racial modifier in most cases. :) [/QUOTE]
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