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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Unwise" data-source="post: 6372393" data-attributes="member: 98008">As a DM I don't like the idea of rolling stats at all. People only do it because they think I will have pity on them if they roll terribly. The thing is, that really skews things, as if I do that, I should also force them to reroll obscenely good stats, which nobody wants. The net effect of rerolling bad ones is that it is always worth taking a punt, the worst you can end up with is near average.For instance, rolling for myself in a game I play, I rolled a great set of stats, then rolled a 4 for the last stat. The DM said that it would be unplayable no matter where I put it, so opted to let us all reroll our lowest stat. I ended up with an 17, making the array superhuman. DMs are effectively going to let people reroll anything lower than 6, but it is not like they are forcing them to reroll anything higher than 16.In the past, dealing with rather annoying players, I have said that stats last for 4 levels. So if you roll a gimp and they die, your next character will use the exact same stats. Up until you have played through 4 levels (we level pretty quickly). This stopped people playing in such a way as to get to reroll until they end up with great stats. They would simply retire a character after a while, or undergo a magical/alchemical/training regime to reroll on the existing character if it made plot sense.As a DM, I don't want to have weak characters that people are unhappy to play at my table. The flip side of this though, is that we lose out on some very interesting characters that we might have had doing the old-school roll in order thing. What I have tried recently, is giving people three good stats to put in their main stats, they then have the option of rolling randomly for their three other less important stats, no swapping. This has worked well, as it has meant we have ended up with a Wizard who is a part-time bodybuilder, a Fighter who just always wanted to be a bard and a monk who was as thick as two short planks, but somehow really like able.</blockquote>

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