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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 100961" data-attributes="member: 2011">I love rolling, but I prefer point buy.The obvious reasons are that there are no fudging and that characters can be created before the group ever gets to the gaming table. You can easily figure out exactly where points came from. Even for higher level characters who have bumped up scores due to level 4, 8, etc.The main problem with rolling is that wide range of scores. In every 3E campaign where we have done rolling, we have had at least one low 20 score character and one or more low to high 50 score characters.This just isn't that much fun for some people. Yes, some people get a low stat character and shrug and roleplay it. Other people do not have that type of personality (I'm one of them. I want to play heroes, not wimps <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ).In our current campaign, the DM made it 34 point buy for humans, 32 point buy for non-humans. I think this is the correct idea, but he should have made it 36 and 32. The reason is that virtually every non-human bumps up a stat of 14 or higher, hence, they gain 4+ point buy points right there. I think 2 was not enough. JMO.</blockquote>