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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 2172965" data-attributes="member: 463">Words of wisdom from Thanee, as always (I always feel Thanee should get a nomination for &quot;most common sense from any ENW poster&quot; award) <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=":)" />I think the designers knew fine well that 3/4d6 equated roughly to 28 PB and anticipated that most groups probably wouldn't use 25 PB - after all LG doesn't.&nbsp; Having NPC arrays on 25 pts &amp; PCs on 28 gives just the slight edge that makes for a satisfying game experience IMO.&nbsp; I used to be a &quot;PCs are heroes - they need super duper stats!&quot; school, but that's 1e/2e thinking - in 3e super-stat campaigns are actually far more random &amp; prone to unforeseen TPKs, because the Gm needs tougher encounters to challenge, but the PCs aren't much more resilient.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 2172965, member: 463"] Words of wisdom from Thanee, as always (I always feel Thanee should get a nomination for "most common sense from any ENW poster" award) :) I think the designers knew fine well that 3/4d6 equated roughly to 28 PB and anticipated that most groups probably wouldn't use 25 PB - after all LG doesn't. Having NPC arrays on 25 pts & PCs on 28 gives just the slight edge that makes for a satisfying game experience IMO. I used to be a "PCs are heroes - they need super duper stats!" school, but that's 1e/2e thinking - in 3e super-stat campaigns are actually far more random & prone to unforeseen TPKs, because the Gm needs tougher encounters to challenge, but the PCs aren't much more resilient. [/QUOTE]

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