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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ilbranteloth" data-source="post: 7209460" data-attributes="member: 6778044">Nope, not my intention at all.I think I'm pretty good at pointing out that my approach is just that, my approach. It's not for everybody, and I don't begin to pretend it is.And the sentence you didn't include that immediately preceded that was "And if I sat down at your table I'd happily play your game with your rules." And the response as a whole was in direct response to: "But if I sat at your table and you told me I had to do this bulls*it, I'd get up and leave."That leads me to believe that [MENTION=6857879]neogod22[/MENTION] has not tried it. More importantly, their response, as well as those by others, regarding how the system works, or the ramifications of using such a system don't match my experience using the approach for a long time. Which also leads me to believe that the approach as we apply it in our campaign is different than what others think it is. It's not the "real" way, it's a different way. It wasn't even the "default" way until 2e (the "default" or Method I in AD&D was 4d6, drop one, arrange as desired). I really have no idea whether [MENTION=6857879]neogod22[/MENTION] has tried it. That was a legitimate question. And after all the time that I've played, I have honestly found that this is the approach I/we like best. That's a simple observation of my own experience and statement of fact regarding our table. The fact that we build the characters together, rather than at home by ourselves is another part of the process we use, and I think is probably pretty different from how most folks that use point buy/optimization do, and also a big part of the fun of rolling for stats instead of a point buy. At least for us.I even ended that comment with "I'm not saying everybody will like it" and followed it with several other paragraphs as to how we try to accommodate those who really just don't like it if they decide to sit down at one of my tables. On the other hand, I play D&D, and I'm always proselytizing that. Because it is the best game ever! <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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