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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FreeTheSlaves" data-source="post: 2920707" data-attributes="member: 9952">Well talk of 'fairness' is really talk about the fairness of opportunity vs the fairness of outcome. Take a pick of which you prefer. Me? I'd prefer an inclusive approach that accomodated both, rather than the either/or antagonisms. It would've been real nice for people like me if WotC had published a legit table with rolled method to point buy comparisons. Anyway I'm moving from the point of the thread.Whatever generation system you use you model something. If you want the characters to model the highly varied general society you use something like 3d6. 4d6 will model a more skewed elite strata but still touching base with the absolute worst off. The minimum total modifier and stat spike coupled with the 4d6 cuts away the characters that are or approach the absolute worst. What then do the point buy methods model? Well they model a strata of the populace that possess equivalent ability. Unless the point buy is 96 they never model the absolute peak strata but something below, usually quite above average well below the maximum. Point buy thereby generates a group of true peers, which would seldom naturally occur in a society (assuming 3d6). It really is a meta template.</blockquote>