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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7250377" data-attributes="member: 996">Oh yeah, been on that merry-go-round... ;| As far as the stats go, it's an even playing field.  A tad more even, with array, esoterically less so given differences in player system-mastery with point-buy, but both more so than rolling.  And, if you 'like an even playing field,' then less uneven is preferable to more.  I think you're exaggerating his claim, and holding point-buy/array to an 'unfair' (...oooh, that's a risk...) standard, in order to raise an objection where no valid objection exists.  It's the way proponents of imbalance assert that, since perfect balance is impossible, the game should be as imbalanced as humanly or otherwise possible, because, hey, you can't be perfect, so you might just as well utterly horrible, right? It's not like there's any middle ground, or possibility of improvement, is there?  ;P(Or, I could've just said "you're nit-picking" but that would have been succinct, and anyone who prefers succinct should be long gone from a thread like this...)...However, another interesting thing I noticed in reviewing the PH:  Standard Array is essentially /built into standard 4d6 generation/.  Think about it, folks.  A player who doesn't like random generation sitting at a standard 5e table, can just take the array.  Best of both worlds, in a way, really.  At worst, a neat compromise.</blockquote>