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<blockquote data-quote="Dragon Snack" data-source="post: 3809471" data-attributes="member: 9810">My group used to jump through a lot of hoops to get good stats (everybody did it, so it wasn't really &quot;cheating&quot;).&nbsp; Maybe their version of the &quot;standard method&quot; is different from yours?My first character was a straight roll (4d6, drop one), he was so underpowered that I actually had another player say he didn't like my character because he wasn't very good.&nbsp; 6x6 array, reroll 1's, roll until you had at least one 18 (you name it, we probably tried it).&nbsp; Then we realized that it wasn't stopping the abuses and was a lot of work for not much benefit (since it didn't actually address the issue), we just wanted to say we were &quot;rolling for stats&quot;.We got over that and switched to point buy.&nbsp; We have grown to prefer it, I even put &quot;choose whatever stats you want&quot; on the table for the last game I DMed - nobody wanted to do it (it was not-so-unspoken that the better their stats were the harder the monsters were going to be).The software that came with the 3.0 PHB did the same thing.&nbsp; We had a player who had &quot;rolled&quot; over 100 times...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dragon Snack, post: 3809471, member: 9810"] My group used to jump through a lot of hoops to get good stats (everybody did it, so it wasn't [i]really[/i] "cheating"). Maybe their version of the "standard method" is different from yours? My first character was a straight roll (4d6, drop one), he was so underpowered that I actually had another player say he didn't like my character because he wasn't very good. 6x6 array, reroll 1's, roll until you had at least one 18 (you name it, we probably tried it). Then we realized that it wasn't stopping the abuses and was a lot of work for not much benefit (since it didn't actually address the issue), we just wanted to say we were "rolling for stats". We got over that and switched to point buy. We have grown to prefer it, I even put "choose whatever stats you want" on the table for the last game I DMed - nobody wanted to do it (it was not-so-unspoken that the better their stats were the harder the monsters were going to be). The software that came with the 3.0 PHB did the same thing. We had a player who had "rolled" over 100 times... [/QUOTE]

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