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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 7221546" data-attributes="member: 6801845">The last time I rolled for stats my wife rolled poorly while another gal at the table got incredibly high results.  We all rolled in person, roll 4d6 drop lowest.  And yes, I agree it was highly unusual.However, because my game was cancelled and it was an interesting challenge I did another variation of my program.  I repeated my hell hound fight (1 lvl 4 PC vs a hell hound).  I then took a few examples of my "average different characters for a group of 6".  Where I took the numbers from the lowest in the party, the highest in the party and then made the following assumptions<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dwarven fighters because it's one of the better options for a low(er) stat character</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dex is a dump stat</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">AC 20 (plate + shield)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dueling fighting style (+2 damage)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Level 4, max out Strength and Con instead of taking a feat</li> </ul>Just for clarity, the low stat PC is Larry, the high stat PC is Henry.Larry: STR 20, CON 14, DEX 6, INT 10, WIS 9, CHA 11        PC: 51%Henry: STR 20, CON 18, DEX 12, INT 13, WIS 14, CHA 12        PC: 63%----------------------------Larry: STR 18, CON 16, DEX 6, INT 11, WIS 11, CHA 8        Hell Hound: 68%Henry: STR 20, CON 17, DEX 10, INT 12, WIS 14, CHA 15        Hell Hound: 54%----------------------------Larry: STR 16, CON 15, DEX 10, INT 12, WIS 12, CHA 12        Hell Hound: 73%Henry: STR 20, CON 20, DEX 8,  INT 12, WIS 13, CHA 15        PC: 55%----------------------------PC with lower points average win: 40%PC with higher points average win: 55%A point buy character (just for grins)STR 18, CON 18, DEX 8, INT 12, WIS 12, CHA 9        Hell Hound: 52%My conclusion?  If you're a 4th level fighter that got separated from the party and run into a hell hound, run.That and my sample size is too small ... maybe I need to tweak my program a bit.  Hmm ... my wife is working today.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/glasses.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt="B-)" title="Glasses    B-)" data-shortname="B-)" /></blockquote>

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