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Message: <blockquote data-quote="arscott" data-source="post: 3337427" data-attributes="member: 17969">My on-haitus Dark•Matter game was non-random and non-forgiving:  25 point buy, average hp (round down).If I ever run my Dark Sun game, I will be random and non-forgiving:  4d6 drop 1, will a reroll for really bad stats as specified in the phb, and rolled hitpoints with no rerolls.I don't like using systems that increase character capability.  All it does is shift the baseline, and that's just more tweaking I need to do to ensure that the party faces appropriately difficult challenges.Another system I'm thinking of trying is a player-determined randomness:instead of rolling dX for hitpoints, roll d(X-2Y)+YSo a barbarian (d12 HD) can roll any of the following:d12, d10+1, d8+2, d6+3, d4+4, d2+5, 6All but the straight 6 average 6.5 hp.</blockquote>