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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7211236" data-attributes="member: 29398">What I look at is the overall average.  The numbers you give here average out to 12.63.A while back I did a bunch of analysis on a somewhat random few hundred characters we've had in our games over the years, and the overall starting average worked out to about 13.3 after racial adjustments - which is fine given that a) our rolling system is more generous and b) our bonuses don't kick in until 15 anyway.What really surprised me was how little difference there was between the stat averages of characters who died fairly soon (say, a career of <5 adventures) and characters who lasted a long time (10 or more adventures); which told me (somewhat unexpectedly) that starting stats are a quite poor predictor of projected career length.  There was also quite a wide variance within both the die-quicks and the long-termers, again telling me that the importance of starting stats is perhaps overrated.Now one could, I suppose, dive deeper in and see if a 13 average made up of 13-13-13-13-13-13 does better or worse than 18-12-12-12-12-12 or 16-16-13-13-10-10...but I'm not about to. <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=":)" />Lan-"much more reliable indicators of projected career length turned out to be class and - to a lesser extent - race"-efan</blockquote>

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