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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7217728" data-attributes="member: 29398">So, not perhaps exactly what they want, but something sort-of close.  The same can be said for both roll-and-rearrange and fixed-array.  The only method that has a real chance of messing up a concept is roll-in-order.This one doesn't make sense.  How does stat generation method have anything to do with players competing to play the same 'role' (or class) in the party?I will go there every single time.If you're intent is - as mine is - to try and reflect a real-ish game world population with people in it who are not all the same, that variability will also extend to played characters.  Rolling - with or without rearranging - reflects this randomness nicely, while at the same time reasonably and quite elegantly allowing the PCs to (on average) be a cut above by giving them 4d6k3 or even 5d6k3 instead of the general population's 3d6.  Meanwhile rearranging allows one's rolls to suit one's concept - except in very rare circumstances - which to me largely puts the "I can't play my character concept" argument to bed.Side note: something that only just occurred to me while typing this (though maybe old news to everyone else): if 3d6 gives what seems like too loose a bell curve for either or both of the PCs and the general population, a tighter - i.e. much lower chance of extremes - 3-18 bell curve can be achieved via rolling 5d4-2.  Maybe this would work better for rolling up commoners?Lanefan</blockquote>

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