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<blockquote data-quote="Don Durito" data-source="post: 8113854" data-attributes="member: 6687260">In some ways, what would bother me most is the idea of a Goliath with an 8 Strength.&nbsp; That seems somewhat silly.&nbsp;&nbsp; Of course a Goliath with a 10 Strength is not really that much better, so it's a small difference. (Especially as I don't buy the perception I sometimes see around here that the difference between 10 and 8 is some huge gulf that is somehow bigger than the gaps between all the other numbers.)For setting purposes I would prefer someting like Goliaths have a minimum Strength of 15.&nbsp; Of course in a Point Buy system that would just reinforce that they have to be Strength based Classes.&nbsp; I don't want that.&nbsp; I'm happy for them to be Wizards, I just want them to be big strong wizards.All of which I think highlights the real problem - point buy is actually a really bad way of generating D&amp;D characters.&nbsp; It only looks good in alternative to random rolling.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Don Durito, post: 8113854, member: 6687260"] In some ways, what would bother me most is the idea of a Goliath with an 8 Strength. That seems somewhat silly. Of course a Goliath with a 10 Strength is not really that much better, so it's a small difference. (Especially as I don't buy the perception I sometimes see around here that the difference between 10 and 8 is some huge gulf that is somehow bigger than the gaps between all the other numbers.) For setting purposes I would prefer someting like Goliaths have a minimum Strength of 15. Of course in a Point Buy system that would just reinforce that they have to be Strength based Classes. I don't want that. I'm happy for them to be Wizards, I just want them to be big strong wizards. All of which I think highlights the real problem - point buy is actually a really bad way of generating D&D characters. It only looks good in alternative to random rolling. [/QUOTE]

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