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<blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 5067705" data-attributes="member: 15538">I really prefer rolling. I honestly have no idea how even straight 18s could be gamebreaking; it would just be somewhat annoying to me, with my group. The other thing is that it encourages playing against type. If you roll an 18, it is rare and precious, but it doesn't &quot;cost&quot; any&nbsp; more to burn it on the dwarf's charisma than it does for any other sorcerer. The dwarf just ends up with a lower Cha and a higher Con. Under point buy, you are clearly burning points to play a dwarf sorcerer. That's one aspect.I like the idea of character creation as a sort of minigame, an imaginative undertaking. As long as it's a reasonable system, I find random ability scores to be a useful tool. My players always want to roll. Sometimes they ask to reroll, and I give them a disappointed look and they live with it. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="pawsplay, post: 5067705, member: 15538"] I really prefer rolling. I honestly have no idea how even straight 18s could be gamebreaking; it would just be somewhat annoying to me, with my group. The other thing is that it encourages playing against type. If you roll an 18, it is rare and precious, but it doesn't "cost" any more to burn it on the dwarf's charisma than it does for any other sorcerer. The dwarf just ends up with a lower Cha and a higher Con. Under point buy, you are clearly burning points to play a dwarf sorcerer. That's one aspect. I like the idea of character creation as a sort of minigame, an imaginative undertaking. As long as it's a reasonable system, I find random ability scores to be a useful tool. My players always want to roll. Sometimes they ask to reroll, and I give them a disappointed look and they live with it. :) [/QUOTE]

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