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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 169045" data-attributes="member: 114">Thanks for all the feedback guys.I've used the 4d6 drop lowest all  the while up to now, but it has led to some startling inequalities between PCs. When one guy rolls two 18's in front of me, and someone else gets and 18 & a 17, while others are getting much closer to the average of about 13... it can lead to player disatisfaction.There was resistance to point-buy when I originally talked about it with them, but I realise that we have used it very happily in Bushido (and other games) so I'm all for giving it a go.Anyhow, thats when I started thinking about the issues with scaling point buy and non-humans. As a simple example of the kind of thing, in 25 point buy a human rogue could have 18 Dex and 10 in every other attribute. An elven rogue could choose to have 16+2=18 dex, 12-2 = 10 con and then have an additional 4 pts that he could use to give himself 14 Int (for example) - whoo, two extra skill points per level and bonuses on Int skills <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I think, on balance, I'm going to go for 72 points split how you want (max 18 in any one stat, of course!) Bonus points for a good background and if the last character died heroically (the "karma" bonus <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)Cheers</blockquote>

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