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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dash Dannigan" data-source="post: 760798" data-attributes="member: 6306">I prefer random generation of ability scores as a player and DM. I enjoy the challenges that can be brought about for my character and the challenges brought about for the other players as well in the formation of a party of adventurers. (a mage and a thief  who are both strong and capable may have to work differently with a deadly but weak fighter, or a devout but horrendously ugly cleric).  A character with high scores is essentially your atypical hero-type (I consider all characters heroes more-or-less but these particular characters can't really hide who they are, they are just that good) and others in the game-world should see them as thus. This if rp'd well should present it's own problems in-game. (hero-worship, others coming to them with their problems constantly, if the Char fails the others they then begin to loathe and despise him, etc.)A character with low scores has their own set of problems, being more frail, incapable, or have a disability that makes their life a bit more difficult than your average joe. (on the upswing they may be underestimated or ignored as relative non-threats as compared to the obvious hero-types, i.e. threatening hero-types get targeted first).I enjoy the rp challenege I am confronted with each time I create a new character that emerges from the chaotic mists of random generation, not knowing what sort of character I end up with and will have to roleplay. Who would've thought I'd end up with a genius half-orc barbarian that repeatedly astounds listeners with his dramatic prose, or a clumsy wizard that is only moderately intelligent but on the whole quite capable in other things comparitive to other wizards.Understandably this wreaks havoc with folk who have a specific archetype or concept they wish to play in particular. I for one enjoy putting a char together and only when finished do  I know what I have in store for rp. Perhaps this is unusual (and I am a bit of a rp vet). Does anyone else feel this way at all?</blockquote>

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