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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7256835" data-attributes="member: 29398">I messed around with this a few weeks ago while at a session where someone else's character was off exploring and we were waiting.  Quick thoughts:Huge variance within each character if one simply takes the dice in descending order.  Nearly always an 18, and nearly always a 6 or lower.Pure average says you should get on 24d6 four occurrences of each number i.e. 4 sixes, 4 fives, etc., giving a raw average stat line of6-6-6 = 186-5-5 = 165-5-4 = 144-4-4 = 123-3-3 = 93-2-2 = 7(2-2-1-1-1-1 - discarded)Average is 12.67, a bit higher than 4d6x1 (12.24).Quite a bit of variance between the pseudo-characters I rolled up - one had 18-18-16 at the top end and another had a low end of something like 8-6-4.I've also done this once, as the fastest way I could think of to bang out a table-ful of characters for ten not-very-sober players at a New Years' Eve party who suddenly decided to play a D&D game - I randomly rolled d10 until I got 6 different numbers, counted around the table and those people whose numbers came up got to roll dice for a stat.  Everyone used the same numbers, rearranged to suit whatever class they were.Oh, and how did I end up DMing this?  Also by random roll.  My specific intent was NOT to DM as I would have preferred to play (and chuck a non-DM into the DM's seat for a change!), but 11 people each rolled d20 and guess who rolled highest...Lan-"dice, sometimes, are my worst enemy"-efan</blockquote>

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