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<blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 6036494" data-attributes="member: 3424">Actually, even in a straight 3d6 world, a stat array comprised completely of 10's and 11's is more common than one with any bonuses and penalities, so that would be closer to the &quot;average&quot; (specifically, the mode) than those individuals whose poor results in certain abilities happened to be balanced out by better than average results in others.That said, although on a straight 3d6 basis there is only a 16.2% chance that any stat will be 14 or higher, the fact that you are rolling for six ability scores means that the probability of getting a 14 or higher for at least one stat is about 65.37%.So yes, if there is a reasonably high correlation between a good stat and putting points in a skill that uses that stat (whether you're a goat farmer because your father was a goat farmer is beyond the scope of this study), then it is quite likely that a craftsman, professional or performer would have an Intelligence, Wisdom or Charisma score of 14 or more.However, arriving at this conclusion is a lot more involved than &quot;just use the (11, 11, 11, 10, 10, 10) array&quot; or &quot;just use the non-elite array (13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8)&quot;.Which is kind of the point, actually. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="FireLance, post: 6036494, member: 3424"] Actually, even in a straight 3d6 world, a stat array comprised completely of 10's and 11's is more common than one with any bonuses and penalities, so that would be closer to the "average" (specifically, the mode) than those individuals whose poor results in certain abilities happened to be balanced out by better than average results in others. That said, although on a straight 3d6 basis there is only a 16.2% chance that any stat will be 14 or higher, the fact that you are rolling for six ability scores means that the probability of getting a 14 or higher for at least one stat is about 65.37%. So yes, if there is a reasonably high correlation between a good stat and putting points in a skill that uses that stat (whether you're a goat farmer because your father was a goat farmer is beyond the scope of this study), then it is quite likely that a craftsman, professional or performer would have an Intelligence, Wisdom or Charisma score of 14 or more. However, arriving at this conclusion is a lot more involved than "just use the (11, 11, 11, 10, 10, 10) array" or "just use the non-elite array (13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8)". Which is kind of the point, actually. ;) [/QUOTE]

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