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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark CMG" data-source="post: 2630774" data-attributes="member: 10479">Hi ry! <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=":)" />Maybe I am not understanding your question but (as you know) in a standard game, a character's ability scores do not increase (naturally) until 4th-level.  So if, for instance, you have a character with the the Elite array, which works out to a 25 point buy (and +5 in modifiers), of 15, 14, 13, 12, 10, 8 and he leveled up at 4th-level, he might achieve the equivalent of a 27 point buy by raising the 15 or the 14 by one point.  In the case of what I call the "Tough Array" of either 15, 14, 14, 12, 11, 9 or 15, 14, 14, 13, 10, 9, both of which which work out to a 28 point buy (and +6 in modifiers), one can only hope to jump to the equivalent of a 30 point buy by adjusting one of the highest scores by one point.  What I consider the standard array for a high-powered campaign, or 32 points buy (and +9 in modifiers) is 16, 14, 14, 14, 10, 10.  Granted there are a number of ways to massage these numbers and I'm sure some others can "point" them out <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=";)" /> but I'm just trying to illustrate the differences between them in a way to suggest that the growth from first level to second should probably best not be expressed in an ability score increase lest it be too much of an adjustment.  Leave 1st-level character generation as is and perhaps look toward equipment as something easier to adjust, if you truly feel the disparity is enough to warrant some adjustment.  That's my advice, anyway. <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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