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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Philip" data-source="post: 1556638" data-attributes="member: 10993">I once felt as you did, but then switched to point buy and loved it. RPG is for me not about 'forcing' the players to play something they might not be comfortable with, but to let them play something they would like to play.I had a player that was forced to play a (rolled) Int 6, Cha 17 character, while his natural playing style was more like Int 17 and Cha 6. It was impossible for him, and weird for the others players because he kept breaking out of his 'role' forced upon him by the rolled stats.When I look back when my players were rolling for stats, I often allowed rerolls, because you can't go out and make a whole party of Wizards when the dice just happen to fall in favor of Intelligence and not in favor of Strength.Additionally, I think the 24 rolls at the start of a career shouldn't have a 100 times as big an impact as all the subsequent rolls made in the game.Whether 4d6-L is statistically equivalent to 40 point-buy? Depends on the characters you want. If you like a character with scores between 16 and 18, probably, yeah. If you don't need that kind of ability scores, then it's not.</blockquote>