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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 3947143" data-attributes="member: 22424">For our last campaign, our group briefly flirted with random rolls (we'd been using 28-point buy previously). The result was that one player absolutely loved it - he rolled the equivalent of a 40-point buy, with a conveniently placed 'dump stat', leading to a very powerful character indeed. He then compounded this by taking the Warblade class.Another player absolutely hated it. He rolled 14-12-10-10-10-10, and this was after he rerolled his first character for having no stat above 13 (or whatever that threshold is). He wound up playing a Halfling Rogue with a 16 and 5 10s. (Of course, the last time we rolled, some years ago in another DM's campaign, that same player rolled 18-17-17-14-10-10.)And, actually, it is that that is my major objection to random rolls. It's not that sometimes you get absurdly high stats. It's not that sometimes you get absurdly low stats. It's that very often, one player will get a really good set of stats, while another will wind up with average or poor stats. If stats weren't so important to the game then that would be fine, but as it is my preference is for a suitable point-buy.</blockquote>