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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6861133" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Darwin. Both on the Internet and at the table. There's normally no reason to post your characters on the Internet, so the only time I ever see rolled character stats on the Internet is either in the context of a &quot;let's make a bunch of characters&quot; thread (which often has variant rolling techniques like 3d6-in-order and results in a ton of poor rolls and interesting characters), or a &quot;I rolled two 18s, how should I optimize this?&quot; thread. So the Internet has a bias towards showing only the highest rolls.Then at the table there's a little bit of Darwin too. For good or for bad, players invest more time in characters that excite them, which often means that a character with a statline like 10, 9, 12, 12, 7, 10 gets less attention than one with a 17, 15, 14, 11, 13, 16 or even than one with 6, 8, 9, 7, 4, 10, 7. Unusual stuff is more interesting, and so is awesome stuff, so there's an additional Darwinian bias towards characters that are simultaneously powerful and unusual.In short: in what context would you expect to see poorly-rolled characters? There is no global database of PCs for you to look through.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 6861133, member: 6787650"] Darwin. Both on the Internet and at the table. There's normally no reason to post your characters on the Internet, so the only time I ever see rolled character stats on the Internet is either in the context of a "let's make a bunch of characters" thread (which often has variant rolling techniques like 3d6-in-order and results in a ton of poor rolls and interesting characters), or a "I rolled two 18s, how should I optimize this?" thread. So the Internet has a bias towards showing only the highest rolls. Then at the table there's a little bit of Darwin too. For good or for bad, players invest more time in characters that excite them, which often means that a character with a statline like 10, 9, 12, 12, 7, 10 gets less attention than one with a 17, 15, 14, 11, 13, 16 or even than one with 6, 8, 9, 7, 4, 10, 7. Unusual stuff is more interesting, and so is awesome stuff, so there's an additional Darwinian bias towards characters that are simultaneously powerful and unusual. In short: in what context would you expect to see poorly-rolled characters? There is no global database of PCs for you to look through. [/QUOTE]

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