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Message: <blockquote data-quote="milotha" data-source="post: 1557532" data-attributes="member: 17122">At first, I was really happy with the point buy system.  I thought, finally a balanced system of generating equal characters.  This seems great.  No longer will I have to endure a single crummy roll of the dice hampering my character for it's entire career.I made up my first point buy character and discovered that my highest stat was a 14 because I didn't want to ditch any of my stats.  The next character came out fairly similar, I got one 16 that time.  And the next and the next and the next all went the same.  Pretty soon, I realized that I'd never have a character with a rolled 6 in one stat.  I'd never have that interesting roll playing challenge of having to put a 6 in some stat.  One of my favorite characters of all in 2e had a 6 in wisdom, another one had an 6 in con.  It was a hoot to role play.I've gone back to rolling.  We roll 4d6 7 times and drop the lowest roll.  Then assign your stats as you see fit.  We find that we get higher point total characters, and we get a broader range of characters.  If you roll particularly crappy, you get to reroll.  Plus, whenever you roll that 18, the character feels special.  You are more likely to bond with it, and more likely to care.  That's a good thing in my book.  No one seems to mind.</blockquote>