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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7242850" data-attributes="member: 29398">High.&nbsp; My expectation - and that of most of our crew in general - is to play a character as long as it may last, in full knowledge that it might not last through its first session or might end up lasting for many years.&nbsp; That said, it's also quite acceptable to retire characters and bring in new ones as the campaign goes along.Ours tend to run about 10 years or a bit more, often with multiple parties either sharing table time (a few adventures with group A, then a few with group B) or being played concurrently.Perma-death is a fact of...well...life at low levels.&nbsp; At mid-levels once a character has built up some wealth revival comes into play, and at high level when revival is available in the field death becomes much less of an issue.&nbsp; However, there's still the resurrection-survival roll - none of this auto-success that 3e brought in and subsequent editions have kept.A suggestion, to be sure, but not a rule: nowhere does he say that characters without 2 15+ scores must be rerolled.It really all depends on what you're willing to play. 16-14-14-x-x-x before racial adjust looks pretty good when held up against some things I've played...or am playing. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp; That said, allow me to be blunt: if someone insists on playing 18-18-16-x-x-x all the time and supports rolling for stats because that's the only method in which one can achieve this, then as far as I'm concerned they're supporting the roll-up method for the wrong reasons.Lan-&quot;if I do roll 18-18-16-x-x-x I'll happily play it, knowing full well I'll likely get 15-13-11-x-x-x for the next one&quot;-efan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7242850, member: 29398"] High. My expectation - and that of most of our crew in general - is to play a character as long as it may last, in full knowledge that it might not last through its first session or might end up lasting for many years. That said, it's also quite acceptable to retire characters and bring in new ones as the campaign goes along.Ours tend to run about 10 years or a bit more, often with multiple parties either sharing table time (a few adventures with group A, then a few with group B) or being played concurrently. Perma-death is a fact of...well...life at low levels. At mid-levels once a character has built up some wealth revival comes into play, and at high level when revival is available in the field death becomes much less of an issue. However, there's still the resurrection-survival roll - none of this auto-success that 3e brought in and subsequent editions have kept. A suggestion, to be sure, but not a rule: nowhere does he say that characters without 2 15+ scores must be rerolled. It really all depends on what you're willing to play. 16-14-14-x-x-x before racial adjust looks pretty good when held up against some things I've played...or am playing. :) That said, allow me to be blunt: if someone insists on playing 18-18-16-x-x-x all the time and supports rolling for stats because that's the only method in which one can achieve this, then as far as I'm concerned they're supporting the roll-up method for the wrong reasons. Lan-"if I do roll 18-18-16-x-x-x I'll happily play it, knowing full well I'll likely get 15-13-11-x-x-x for the next one"-efan [/QUOTE]

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