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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6589182" data-attributes="member: 1465">I like rolling stats for my own PCs, but I understand the concerns about fairness.On the other hand, point-buy is a bit tedious sometimes, as it tends to encourage optimization. Unless players have already prepared their optimizations before coming to the game, you can sometimes end up in a situation where players start thinking too much and spend half an hour increasing here / decreasing there, and still at the end get the feeling that they might have made a mistake, especially if at some point you had enough and prompted them to speed up. This especially happens with newcomers, I don't want to have beginner players start off with the idea that D&amp;D is a game about strategic perfectionism.Thus I've been thinking about using standard arrays, but then a single array for everyone might be too much of a simplification, so probably I should settle for a small number (something like ~5) default standard arrays, all of which equivalent in terms of corresponding to valid point-buy combinations, but each having a different number of primary and secondary stats. Maybe something like:- array #1 &gt; one primary- array #2 &gt; one primary, one secondary- array #3 &gt; two primary- array #4 &gt; one primary, two secondary- array #5 &gt; three primarywhere the primary stats are as high as possible, the secondaries are mid-range between primaries and all other stats, and the latter are basically on par.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 6589182, member: 1465"] I like rolling stats for my own PCs, but I understand the concerns about fairness. On the other hand, point-buy is a bit tedious sometimes, as it tends to encourage optimization. Unless players have already prepared their optimizations before coming to the game, you can sometimes end up in a situation where players start thinking too much and spend half an hour increasing here / decreasing there, and still at the end get the feeling that they might have made a mistake, especially if at some point you had enough and prompted them to speed up. This especially happens with newcomers, I don't want to have beginner players start off with the idea that D&D is a game about strategic perfectionism. Thus I've been thinking about using standard arrays, but then a single array for everyone might be too much of a simplification, so probably I should settle for a small number (something like ~5) default standard arrays, all of which equivalent in terms of corresponding to valid point-buy combinations, but each having a different number of primary and secondary stats. Maybe something like: - array #1 > one primary - array #2 > one primary, one secondary - array #3 > two primary - array #4 > one primary, two secondary - array #5 > three primary where the primary stats are as high as possible, the secondaries are mid-range between primaries and all other stats, and the latter are basically on par. [/QUOTE]

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