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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7272363" data-attributes="member: 29398">In that system, perhaps; but in the game as a whole the range is and always has been 3-18.Try as you might it's simply impossible to spin your way out of a rather obvious fact: 8-15 is a narrower (and thus more limiting) range than 3-18.  3-18 is in turn narrower and more limiting than, say, 3e where stats were almost open-ended both ways once play got going.It's also impossible to spin your way out of another only slightly less obvious fact: dice rolling in any form using more than one die is going to give a bell curve across a range, and natural reality - like it or not - works in bell curves.  What this means is - again, like it or not - dice rolling gives a (relatively) more realistic result: a bell curve.No, personal taste comes in only when deciding whether to ignore or discard the two facts above in favour of a system that is both more restricted and more balanced.Lanefan</blockquote>