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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herr der Qual" data-source="post: 6516280" data-attributes="member: 6789144">I love the dice roll, whether I'm playing or whether I'm DMing, it adds some cool curve balls, I don't like point buy because in life, we don't get to pick out bodies, and it seems cheap to me and it restricts characters from developing cool attributes, I love picking up my dice and giving six rolls and seeing what class suits him best. My current character was random rolled and my dice were hot! I've really been enjoying playing a thoroughly tough character. I wound up with: Str 18, Dex 11, Con 19, Int 13, Wis 18 and Cha 16. That's after the modifiers from selecting a Mountain Dwarf. I random roll my personality traits too, went with outlander and actually met personality traits that match his stats in a weird way: I'm always picking things up, fiddling with them and sometimes breaking them (low dex), I watch over my friends as if they were a litter of newborn pups (high cha), Ideals: Change (high wis), Bonds An injury to the wilderness of my home is an injury to me (no conjunction), Flaws: No room for caution (high Con, Str) used to being able to survive the punishment of living recklessly, maybe a byproduct of it.Random rolling all of these attributes and traits makes the role playing a lot more fun for me. I random roll NPC's 98% of the time too, when I DM. If I wind up with a character that I've done the point buy system with I don't find I enjoy it as much, it's just not as fun. I've also had characters with terrible stats, I ran an Aasimar Oracle in Pathfinder that had one stat above 11 and it was his Cha which was 20 after the racial modifier, his stats were Str 8, Dex 9, Con 10, Int 10, Wis 6, Cha 20. His perception was terrible, he wasn't stupid but he wasn't brilliant and he was doomed wading into melee range with anything, but man did his spells hit home and he could charm the pants off anyone a party member had gotten himself in trouble with, once beat a bard at a music competition as well. He was a blast to play, yes I could have built that with a point buy but I would have never dumped a stat like Wis, especially not that hard.So what system do you guys prefer and why? Is there a difference for you if you are DMing or Playing?</blockquote>

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