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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9834971" data-attributes="member: 29398">OK so far - I see no problem with someone starting with an 18.Using our usual 5d6drop2 I've seen a pretty good number of 7s and 6s - and even lower - over the years (including two 4s rolled almost simultaneously by different players; both players put the 4 into Int and the party's overall thinking capacity dropped like a stone when those two came into play).Ideally the power curve is already flexible enough that this doesn't matter in the slightest.  It's the same issue, from a different direction, as having uneven character levels within the party: the math should be more than forgiving enough to allow it and if it isn't, there's a problem.Agreed that it's easier to unbalance things than to balance them.  The more important questions, though, are how much imbalance - particularly imbalance in the immediate here-and-now - is acceptable, and-or whether anyone at the table really cares.</blockquote>