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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6037289" data-attributes="member: 22424">Aye, well, I doubt many people actually used 3d6-in-order!True. Though Dark Sun never used the standard methods. Default there was to roll stats on 4d4+4 in order. The optional variants were:1) Roll 5d4 twice for each score (in order), keeping the better one.2) Roll 5d4 six times, and assign.3) Roll 5d4 twelve times, keep the best six, and assign.4) Roll 6d4-drop-lowest, then assign.5) Each score starts at 10. Roll 10d4. You then assign the dice to the stats, with no stat being allowed to go above 20. And you could only assign a whole die to any given stat; you couldn't split them up.(Yes, in Dark Sun stats could easily go up to 20.)That was 2nd Ed. I don't know if the method existed in 1st. It worked the same as option #5 above, except that stats started at 8, you rolled 7d6, and the max stat was 18. That was our preferred method for 2nd Ed, except for a single short-lived campaign that ended because 3e was released. (And that campaign used 4d6-drop-lowest... oddly, the dire warnings came to nothing.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 6037289, member: 22424"] Aye, well, I doubt many people actually [i]used[/i] 3d6-in-order! True. Though Dark Sun never used the standard methods. Default there was to roll stats on 4d4+4 in order. The optional variants were: 1) Roll 5d4 twice for each score (in order), keeping the better one. 2) Roll 5d4 six times, and assign. 3) Roll 5d4 twelve times, keep the best six, and assign. 4) Roll 6d4-drop-lowest, then assign. 5) Each score starts at 10. Roll 10d4. You then assign the dice to the stats, with no stat being allowed to go above 20. And you could only assign a whole die to any given stat; you couldn't split them up. (Yes, in Dark Sun stats could easily go up to 20.) That was 2nd Ed. I don't know if the method existed in 1st. It worked the same as option #5 above, except that stats started at 8, you rolled 7d6, and the max stat was 18. That was our preferred method for 2nd Ed, except for a single short-lived campaign that ended because 3e was released. (And that campaign used 4d6-drop-lowest... oddly, the dire warnings came to nothing.) [/QUOTE]

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