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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 9833300" data-attributes="member: 7030563">No they won't.  Not in play they won't.  They may be "balanced" on your character sheet when you are not playing the game; but when you start playing you can throw that out the window.No it won't.  Not usually.  Generally your abilities have little affect on overall game balance when comparing the performance of one PC versus the performance of another PC.If two characters are actually "close" and "reasonable" in play it is not because of their array.  It is because their choices, the DMs rulings and the dice thrown in play just happened to result in the characters' performance being close and that is a rare thing indeed.Potential effectiveness is not the same as actual effectiveness and has little to do with balance in play.They won't be in the same ball park in play, but even if the scores were exactly the same they still would not be in the same ballpark in play.In many games the PC with the lower array (9, 7, 11, 4, 13, 10) will outperform the PC with the higher array (9, 13, 13 15, 15, 18) and belief has nothing to do with itYou get significant imbalance regardless of ability scores and it happens in just about every single session.Two PCs with the exact same ability scores, playing the exact same class and race with the exact same choices for weapons, spells, backgrounds, feats and skills will still typically be imbalanced in play in every single session of a campaign.</blockquote>

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