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Message: <blockquote data-quote="graypariah" data-source="post: 6517264" data-attributes="member: 6789912">I think what it comes down to is your players. If you even have one "power gamer" in your group you will almost certainly need to use point buy. The reason? Encounter difficulty. Designing encounters when one of the party members is more powerful than the other three combined and has three times the amount of durability gets old very fast. The encounters need to be one of the following: too easy for the party, too hard for the party, or so complicated that it makes random encounters nearly impossible. None of those options really appeal to me as a DM so I generally use point buy. Now I would love to have no power gamers in my group and be able to have dice rolled stats, but since all of my D&D is online there seems to be nothing but power gamers. I do make them roll the hit dice in chat however.</blockquote>