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<blockquote data-quote="thecasualoblivion" data-source="post: 6861384" data-attributes="member: 59096"><p>I've never much agreed with any of the reasons people give for liking rolling random stats. That being said, I've honestly had little experience with randomly generated stats over the course of 20 years of playing D&amp;D. During the 2E era usually we technically rolled, but there was so much cheating involved I wouldn't exactly call it random generation. The vast majority of this cheating occurred with the approval of the DM, either tacit or actively encouraged. I typically used the roll up a bunch of characters and use the best one method, but after a while I stopped rolling altogether and just wrote whatever stats I wanted on the sheet and said I rolled them. Both of these I did with at least the tacit approval of the DM. I can't recall ever playing a character in 2E with less than 17 dexterity, take from that what you will. During 3E/3.5E we almost always used point buy. A couple times the DM tried using random rolling, but between the cheating and the complaining we always ended up back at point buy in the end. For 4E, randomly rolling was never even remotely considered. 100% point buy for 4E no exceptions ever, and this was a nearly unanimous decision. For 5E, I've only engaged in organized play, so again, point buy.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="thecasualoblivion, post: 6861384, member: 59096"] I've never much agreed with any of the reasons people give for liking rolling random stats. That being said, I've honestly had little experience with randomly generated stats over the course of 20 years of playing D&D. During the 2E era usually we technically rolled, but there was so much cheating involved I wouldn't exactly call it random generation. The vast majority of this cheating occurred with the approval of the DM, either tacit or actively encouraged. I typically used the roll up a bunch of characters and use the best one method, but after a while I stopped rolling altogether and just wrote whatever stats I wanted on the sheet and said I rolled them. Both of these I did with at least the tacit approval of the DM. I can't recall ever playing a character in 2E with less than 17 dexterity, take from that what you will. During 3E/3.5E we almost always used point buy. A couple times the DM tried using random rolling, but between the cheating and the complaining we always ended up back at point buy in the end. For 4E, randomly rolling was never even remotely considered. 100% point buy for 4E no exceptions ever, and this was a nearly unanimous decision. For 5E, I've only engaged in organized play, so again, point buy. [/QUOTE]

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