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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6028558" data-attributes="member: 1465">I think this summarizes the difference between different players.One player already knows what character he wants to play, rolling stats carries a risk of being forced into playing something else, while point-buy guarantees he can play what he wants (or guarantees he can't, in case he wants to play something inappropriate for the campaign).I'm a different kind of player because I don't know what I want to play, or in other words, I want to play a lot of characters. Random stats can make the choice for me, and I'll accept that as a challenge.There are still a couple of obvious reasons why I don't always want to roll stats:- random stats have a chance for a severely less survivable PC and that's ok for me; what is not ok is that there is also a chance for several PCs like this in a row... I can actually still live with that, but can my DM do the same? There are DMs who get irritated if the party of PCs changes continually due to deaths, because this might make the campaign story arc less believable, like having a Shire to Mordor epic quest run in 4x100 relay format <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" />- often RPG rules are such that a lot of character traits requires a minimum score in at least one ability to be used; rolling stats has a small chance that your scores are so slow that there is almost nothing for you to do... On the other hand as a DM I would never force rolling stats on players, at least because I don't want to hear any of them to complain for poor rolls for months afterwards.</blockquote>

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