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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 6028684" data-attributes="member: 8461">This is an excellent point, and something that I suspect that I didn't communicate clearly enough in my original post.I wasn't trying to be bullish about rolling for stats as opposed to point-buy (and if I came across that way, I apologize) - I was just talking about my experiences and reactions to doing so.I did start with Basic and Second Edition, but as I said above, this was mostly reading the books, with a few isolated instances of GMing. It wasn't until college and Third Edition that I tried to run a campaign, and it was only in the last few years that I finally got a chance to be a player in someone else's campaign.I mention that because, by the time I got to be a regular player, I had a lot of pent-up ideas about what sort of characters I wanted to play, and it was easy enough to fall in-line with the group's preference for point-buy (which is, as noted, more conducive to creating a character that you already have in mind). It was only after doing that a few times that I'd worn through that urge enough to try rolling for stats and creating a character that developed organically through play.Doing so was a lot of fun, despite the resulting character running counter to a lot of what I perceived to be the reasons for point-buying stats - namely that the character has, as listed above, some truly atrocious ability scores. That isn't me proselytizing - I just wanted to share my enjoyment. <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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