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<blockquote data-quote="Dr_Ruminahui" data-source="post: 4812394" data-attributes="member: 81104">For what its worth, I had my players do the &quot;roll 4D6, choose 3&quot; method, with the ability to opt to use point buy instead if they didn't like their rolls. 2 players ended up using point buy, with 3 using the rolls they made.&nbsp;It makes for a nice balance - only 1 player has an 18 for a stat (the point buy wizard, whose racial bonus [eladrin] bumped it up to 20), the dice rollers only getting as high as 17s plus racial bonuses, with much more variety in their other stats as well.&nbsp;It does feel (to me) that the dice rollers have somewhat better characters, but its not anything I've heard any of the players complain about. Additionally, it does mean that the group average for stats is likely somewhat higher than what 20 points of point buy would get them, but given that we don't play very often and my treasure allocation has been a bit wierd (no holy symbols given until level 4 was the main thing), it seems to work fine.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dr_Ruminahui, post: 4812394, member: 81104"] For what its worth, I had my players do the "roll 4D6, choose 3" method, with the ability to opt to use point buy instead if they didn't like their rolls. 2 players ended up using point buy, with 3 using the rolls they made. It makes for a nice balance - only 1 player has an 18 for a stat (the point buy wizard, whose racial bonus [eladrin] bumped it up to 20), the dice rollers only getting as high as 17s plus racial bonuses, with much more variety in their other stats as well. It does feel (to me) that the dice rollers have somewhat better characters, but its not anything I've heard any of the players complain about. Additionally, it does mean that the group average for stats is likely somewhat higher than what 20 points of point buy would get them, but given that we don't play very often and my treasure allocation has been a bit wierd (no holy symbols given until level 4 was the main thing), it seems to work fine. [/QUOTE]

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