Point buy

[el-remmen]

I used to use die-rolling, but next time I will be using a stat draft.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

All right stop, collaborate and listen Dice is back with an all new invention....

 

[Dagger75]

32 point buy from the very begining. Work well so far.

 

[Vorput]

All right stop, collaborate and listen Dice is back with an all new invention....

I don't get it.

 

[Dagger75]

DICE, DICE baby.

Vanilla Ice. You must have been born in the mid 1990's.

 

[Felix]

I noticed this as I read the original post:

"...if you used point buy, how much would you use?"

And an "other" option was included in the poll. So much for If/Then clauses. Heh. "If I used point buy, I wouldn't use point buy."

Nothing malicious, just thought it was noteworthy.

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I said 28-31. Somewhere twixt above the elite array and below high power.

 

[solkan_uk]

I use 36 points on the Spycraft points buy system - though with my current group I use dice as their mostly traditionalists

 

[Michael Silverbane]

It really depends on the campaign that I'm going to be running.

For instance, in the last campaign that I ran, I wanted it to be clear that the characters were larger than life heroes, far beyond mere mortals... So I gave them a staggering 48 points with which to buy their attributes.

In the next campaign that I am planning, I want to emphasize the gritty harshness of the post-apocalyptic world, so I am going to be using a 28 point buy. (I would do 25 points for this, but I am afraid that my player's would have heart attacks, going from one extreme to the other).

Later
silver

 

[airwalkrr]

I ALWAYS use dice. But if I ever did use point buy, I would use 25. Point buy already allows you to min/max your character enough. You don't need more than 25 points to build an effective character and I don't care how tough the campaign is. And if the campaign isn't tough, then ability scores should not concern you unless they don't fit your roleplaying concept, which in a point buy they ought to.

 

[Felix]

Point buy already allows you to min/max your character enough.

Were it not that point buy makes higher stats increasingly more expensive to purchase, I might agree with you. Instead, point buy generally produces more balanced characters than a 4d6 drop lowest method. True, you can tailor your character better, but that is something altogether different from min/maxing.

You don't need more than 25 points to build an effective character

25 points gets you:
15, 14, 13, 12, 10, 8

Before any racial mods. A whopping +5 cumulative modifier. In my experience, 4d6 drop lowest will render an average +7 cum modifier. It might not seem like much, but when that +2 mod is applied to your balliwick, you become that much better at what you profess to specialize in. It does make a difference. Especially at low levels when the playing field between the classes is its most even.