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<blockquote data-quote="Jhaelen" data-source="post: 5525795" data-attributes="member: 46713">These days I don't particularly care about making it difficult for players to play what they want to play.Ultimately, you cannot force a player to play something she's not interested in. She'll just play the character in a suicidal manner and hope to get something more to her liking with the next character.Myself I'm using point-buy whenever it's an available option. In my experience the only reason players are ever interested in rolling for their stats is that they hope to get lucky and have above average stats.If you don't like point-buy because you're afraid of min-maxers, using one or more standard arrays might work well.Regarding choice of race, I've never had a problem with this. Most players I know prefer playing humans. Exotic races are chosen very rarely.Unless the pcs are not meant to be exceptional individuals in your game, there's also no reason why there shouldn't be several with rare or unorthodox backgrounds.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jhaelen, post: 5525795, member: 46713"] These days I don't particularly care about making it difficult for players to play what they want to play. Ultimately, you cannot force a player to play something she's not interested in. She'll just play the character in a suicidal manner and hope to get something more to her liking with the next character. Myself I'm using point-buy whenever it's an available option. In my experience the only reason players are ever interested in rolling for their stats is that they hope to get lucky and have above average stats. If you don't like point-buy because you're afraid of min-maxers, using one or more standard arrays might work well. Regarding choice of race, I've never had a problem with this. Most players I know prefer playing humans. Exotic races are chosen very rarely. Unless the pcs are not meant to be exceptional individuals in your game, there's also no reason why there shouldn't be several with rare or unorthodox backgrounds. [/QUOTE]

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