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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7255692" data-attributes="member: 996">I'm really not defending random, I'm clarifying the nature of a stand-out disadvantage of random generation:  that it's potentially very imbalancing.  By calling 'imbalanced,' 'unfair,' you leave yourself open to endlessly-looping arguments in which exponents of random generation can argue, based on the definitions of 'fairness,' that you're wrong, and random is fair.   Feats are opt-in optional.  Also, ASI's don't even it out, they just reduce the imbalance by shifting it from high-impact primary stats to lower-impact secondary ones.  You're welcome.  No, /that/ would be unfair!  You take the array instead of rolling, you get something very close to the ranked average of random.  Reasonably fair:  You give up the chance of getting a character that breaks the game by being too powerful, in return you don't risk getting one that breaks the other way. I might as well say "You're making me defend random stats again!"  ;P   I'd have to consider those variations on random generation, though I guess they're technically hybrids, they take on the positives and negatives of random. Balance. I don't much care for imbalance, myself.   Choice should make a character meaningfully different from other characters - without imbalancing the game, IMHO.</blockquote>