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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6794782" data-attributes="member: 22424">I'd be fine with that if the DMG had some sort of the guideline about using higher point-buy for solo games. As it is, the recommendation is that a PC for a solo game is just a PC.Besides, I don't actually see anything in the Conan stories that indicates he shouldn't sit on a par with, say, Aragorn or Luke Skywalker, both of whom also have an array of above average stats and both whom are team-players.True.In 5e, and for Conan as we first see him, I would suggest a 1st level Human Barbarian with the Criminal (Burglar) background and Str 16, Dex 14, Con 14, Int 10, Wis 13, Cha 12. I'm not terribly happy with that, as the Str in particular should be higher, but 5e's point-buy doesn't allow for stats over 15 (+1 for human) and we've seen many dire warnings from DMs about not letting PCs start with a 16 or higher. Fundamentally, though, I made sure to stick with the 27-point buy guideline given in the 5e rules.Obviously, you could also argue that Conan's stats should be rolled, and point out that that's also a rules-legal way of generating stats in 5e. Which is fine, but I'd counter by arguing that you should go for a reasonable rather than extreme 'rolled' array. But, of course, defining what counts as a "reasonable" rolled array is going to be an exercise in futility. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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