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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 7262180" data-attributes="member: 6787503">I think you missed the point of my question. I wasn't asking why rolling is more realistic than everyone taking the same array or everyone using point-buy. My question was why it's more realistic for an individual character to have a set of rolled scores than it is for the character to have the same scores derived from another method.Let's say there are three PCs in a group that uses 4d6 drop lowest. The player of the first PC rolls 15, 14, 13, 12, 10, 8, which just so happens to be close to the most likely outcome of such a roll. The player of the second PC rolls 14, 14, 14, 12, 9, 9. And the third player rolls 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10 for his character's abilities.Now let's say there's another group with three PCs, but this group likes to use a variety of methods to set its scores, but they never roll dice. One player uses the standard array for her character. Another player uses point-buy to build an array of 14, 14, 14, 12, 9, 9. The last player wants to play a commoner masquerading as a hero and uses the scores of the Commoner NPC for his character.Why is the first group more realistic?</blockquote>