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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cybertalus" data-source="post: 1737905" data-attributes="member: 4400">I can relate somewhat to your players, Crothian.  While I've never had a DM just let me assign stats, as a DM there have been times when I was trying to stat up important NPCs that I would write out several sets of stats, toss them, and then go grab my dice instead.  While I would usually tweak the results a bit, having random generation as a basis to work from just felt like it made the resulting character seem less artificial somehow.That being said.... given the B5 universe and the option to have all 18's, I might be tempted to play a character that was the result of some weird experiment by the PsiCorps/Shadows/Drakh/Vorlons.  But if I did that, I'd wanna work it out with the DM for some kind of serious, ultimately fatal flaw or drawback to the character.  Then again, if I knew that such a character's only impact on the campaign would be that when he died I'd be making another, I'd probably give the whole notion a miss and go grab my 4d6 instead.</blockquote>