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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8832425" data-attributes="member: 93670">Yea kinda.&nbsp; Back in 2e &amp; earlier you could do roll stats &amp; usually nobody cared if Bob's were slightly (or not so slightly) better.&nbsp; There was also the secondary effect that after the primary stat or maybe two players could arrange the rest however even if that meant a flavorful splash if it wasn't a rather high roll.&nbsp; When 3.x shifted +1/-1 from ~15/~6*&nbsp; to 12/8 for +1/-1 it narrowed the dead zone of even from being several points to being two points &amp; suddenly it made a huge difference where you placed any attrib.&nbsp; Even widening it from 12/8 to 14/6 for +1/-1 would do a lot to minimize pressure players feel to minmax their way of chargen because four of the 6 in a standard array are +/-0 &amp; doing a lot of scraping to scrounge up an extra +1 quickly runs into &quot;Is a +1 really&nbsp; worth that pound of flesh?&quot;.&nbsp; Doing so would have the secondary benefit of expanding the system math&nbsp; allotted to magic items*&nbsp; Each attrib varied slightly &amp; they did a lot of things.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 8832425, member: 93670"] Yea kinda. Back in 2e & earlier you could do roll stats & usually nobody cared if Bob's were slightly (or not so slightly) better. There was also the secondary effect that after the primary stat or maybe two players could arrange the rest however even if that meant a flavorful splash if it wasn't a rather high roll. When 3.x shifted +1/-1 from ~15/~6* to 12/8 for +1/-1 it narrowed the dead zone of even from being several points to being two points & suddenly it made a huge difference where you placed any attrib. Even widening it from 12/8 to 14/6 for +1/-1 would do a lot to minimize pressure players feel to minmax their way of chargen because four of the 6 in a standard array are +/-0 & doing a lot of scraping to scrounge up an extra +1 quickly runs into "Is a +1 [I]really[/I] worth that pound of flesh?". Doing so would have the secondary benefit of expanding the system math allotted to magic items * Each attrib varied slightly & they did a lot of things. [/QUOTE]

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