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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zhure" data-source="post: 821772" data-attributes="member: 308">I like set points per level on hit points instead of die rolling, no matter what system is used. In the one 3e game I'm in with random rolls, my high CON sorcerer has more hit points than the middling CON fighter does. Each level I gain 1d4+4 and he gains 1d10+1. On the average, I should be getting 6.5 just like he should, except he keeps rolling '1's and I keep rolling '4's.While I appreciate having more hit points, I feel sorry for him when the sorcerer outperforms him in combat except with regards to BAB (I have a better AC, too, thanks to buff spells).Part of the flaw occurs because the characteristic generation was done randomly, also, and my character has the best stats I've ever seen rolled (13, 15, 17, 17, 18, 18, roll 4, drop low).On the other hand, I do see point-buy as stealing the random spread of characters and makes for the occasional carbon-copy character problem. The only way I can see to overcome this problem is using a different random generation method, which guarantees randomness within a very tight window, like after point-buy, granting a +1 to 1d4 stats chosen at random. Even then, it could yield a huge difference in characters depending on how the original stats were arrayed.<shrug>Greg</blockquote>