re-rolling 1's

[delericho]

We use point buy for stat generation, and fixed hit points per level. If we were to use a random generation method, I wouldn't allow re-rolling of 1's.

 

[Crothian]

No we don't do that.

 

[Arashi Ravenblade]

re-roll all 1's at character creation.

 

[Mercule]

Point buy for creation, this being one of the reasons.

I allow rerolling of 1s for HP. Actually, my homebrew game has started using Iron Heroes HP.

 

[sniffles]

My GMs sometimes allow re-rolling of 1s during character creation. But usually we're allowed to keep rolling until we end up with a set of ability scores we're happy with, so 1s aren't really an issue.

Re-rolling of 1s for hit points is a regular house rule with most of the GMs I play with. There's no reason to handicap the characters by giving them abysmally low HP.

 

[HellHound]

No re-rolling ones during chargen - we use 'organic' chargen (4d6-L in order, re-roll one stat, swap any two). For hit points we allow a single re-roll at each level, but the reroll must be accepted, it's not a 'best of'.

 

[Treebore]

I have them re-roll 1's and 2's until everything is at least a 3, plus I allow 4d6 for each stat, take the best 3 of the 4. So 15 is the average/most common stat for PC's (and key NPC's) in my games.

As for HP's I use a graduated re-roll system.

d4 classes re-roll 1's until a 2 or better is rolled.

d6 and d8 classes re-roll on 1's and 2's until 3 or better is rolled

d10 classes re-roll 1-3's until a 4 or better is rolled.

d12 classes re-roll 1-4's until a 5 or better is rolled.

There are no whimpy PC's, or key bad guys, in my games.

 

[jameswilliamogle]

Most of my current games are point buy.

Back in AD&D, my group used to allow rerolls of 1s and 2s for HP up to 3rd level, then you got what the dice laid out.

I've never heard of rerolling 1s for attributes, until now.

 

[Stalker0]

Half +1 for hitpoints, max at first.

I say if your rerolling 1's for stats because your worried about crappy stats, just give them a point buy and be done with it.

 

[Raloc]

We reroll 1s and 2s on character generation (4d6 drop lowest, usually as well as optional point buy), and for HP we reroll depending on the hit die (d10 or more can reroll 1s and 2s, others reroll 1s I think).