Playing a less then great stat character

[Slife]

Just choose the right class for it.

You can have a decent Master of Many Forms with a 0 point buy.

 

[Aus_Snow]

And the DM is not allowing you to alter these

Not even with racial mods? Standard races are not available?

If you had such stats and everyone in the group had about the same [. . .]

That really is the crucial qualifier. Without that I'd have voted differently, I think.

 

[Fat Daddy]

Don't Like Too High Stats

I voted Yes: I like a challenge. This doesn't necessarily define my true reason why though. I have been known to re-roll a character that has too many high stats. I like a good range of stats with at least 1 low stat (negative modifier). I find this makes for interesting roll playing situations and can help to define the character (or at least suggest personality quirks or tendencies).
Playing 'uber stat man' doesn't really interest me as much as playing a clumsy cleric or no common sense mage or something of that nature. For instance with the 'clumsy cleric' how does the low dex affect his personality? Is he self-conscious about it? Is he very slow and methodical to try and minimize mishaps?
I find that playing a character with at least a few low end stats is just more fun for me. Besides, it's easier for me to relate to as I definitely don't have all high stats! They don't call me Fat Daddy because I have a super high con and str!

 

[TarionzCousin]

CHA 7 PC Rocked!

When I DM, I usually have my players roll their stats. In a recent campaign, the Urban Druid had a 7 Charisma. The player decided her character didn't know that he was socially inept. She was constantly having the character step in whenever Charisma was in play. It was hilarious.

For example, when the elf rogue failed to charm the bartender for information, the Druid stepped in, saying "Let me handle this...." Of course, the fact that she almost always failed allowed for some fun and good roleplaying.

That was a Great Character.

 

[drothgery]

If you had such stats and everyone in the group had about the same but you are on the low end would you play him? Would you do so reluctantly? Or would you kill him off?

The 'and everyone else had about the same' part is why my answer is Yes, reluctantly instead of flat-out no (and I wouldn't do the passive-aggressive play a wizard like a barbarian thing). That set of stats just barely avoids the PHB definition of a hopeless character, with a net +1 modifier and a highest score of 14; if everyone else is dealing with sub-25 point characters, that's not a big deal (though the DM had better remember he's got a low-stat group and scale encounters approriately). But if the rest of the party were playing the kind of characters you should normally get from the standard 4d6 rolling method (27-33 point or so), or the observed results of most 4d6 rolling for chargen (32 point+), then I'd rather not be the weakest link.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Those stats were within a couple of points of a Ftr/Rogue I recently played, so I voted in the first category.

And I'd play that PC regardless of the stats of the other PCs...like I did with that aforementioned Ftr/Rogue.

Bah! In my day we used 12 point buy. And liked it!

Whippersnappers ...

We used 3d6, sonny-jim! And if we complained about a stat, we got to re-roll it...with 3d4!

And we had to drink our sody-pop WARM, because nobody had invented ice!

 

[Hussar]

Been there, done that. A smidgeon low, but, if it's on par with everyone else, where's the problem?

 

[Wombat]

Are those stats unusually low? They don't appear to be. I'd play such a character readily.

 

[Stormborn]

I DM a group that tend to like high stats, but I would play the stats Crothian mentions if for no other reason than to show them it could be done and done well. Could be fun, but I call dibs on any stat boosting items we come across!

 

[delericho]

I voted "Yes, but reluctantly", but that's not entirely fitting.

I would play that character without complaint. But I vastly prefer point-buy systems for character creation these days, so would prefer to have not rolled the dice in the first place.