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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9825847" data-attributes="member: 6790260">The original intent was to compare across different arrays. I did <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/is-point-buy-balanced.716801/post-9824927" target="_blank">an analysis upthread</a> (which was a more laboriously spelled-out version of apparently a couple of analyses previously done, but which I had not seen), where I applied what I felt were a set of relatively reasonable restrictions. The first was that at least one score had to be 14 or 15; the second was that at least two scores had to be 14 or 15, preferably one each; and the third was that odd stats should be mitigated for the final result, which means you prefer to have either exactly one (so you go for +2/+1 from BG in 5.5e or race in 5.0) or exactly three (so you go for +1/+1/+1).65 arrays can be validly purchased through PB, though three (the maximally-distributed ones) don't even meet the first and most general requirement, so I'll leave them out, and thus 62 remain.Of those 62, nine are what I would call "very good" and a further eleven are what I would call "good". If we broaden things a little, about two-thirds are at least decent, especially if you have a plan (e.g. "I know the GM rushes us to 5th level, so I can just wait and pick up a feat"). Hence, my verdict is that, within a reasonable scope of balance, 5e's point-buy rules are pretty well balanced. This is not something I say much about anything in 5e, so I hope that lends weight to the claim. I don't praise it lightly, nor often.</blockquote>

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