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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Badapple" data-source="post: 6000199" data-attributes="member: 71811">I used to roll characters, created hundreds of them for fun, mostly just collections of ability scores.  One of the first BASIC programs I wrote was a character generator.  To this day anytime I'm playing any kind of boardgame that has me roll three six siders, if I get a 17 or an 18, there's a little part of me that thinks "oh I wish I used that roll when I was making a D&D character!"  In short I always equated creating characters with rolling up scores. But one day I was creating a character for an online game and I got something really insane, like two 18s, a 17, and the lowest score something like a 12.  Jackpot!!!! I felt like I couldn't just show up to this online game with this character, or everyone would figure I cheated, so I intentionally nipped down some points here and there to make him more in line with a typical rolled character.  So weirdly enough I cheated, by downgrading my rolls, so that I wouldn't be perceived as a cheater. So, once down this road, I was in a different online game and then instead of rolling, I just picked some stats out of my butt and put them on his sheet (making sure they weren't too high or too low).  I did this because I had a certain type of character I wanted to play, and I was tired of rolling dice over and over again trying to get them to work out to meet the character I just picked an average spread that met his prerequisites, with like a 17 in his main stat or something.  If anything his total scores were lower than the average for the party.  So weirdly enough I cheated, but for a noble reason and with restraint, so that I would have the character I wanted to play. Then I pretty much realized that what I was doing was a sort of self enforced point buy anyway.  Shrug.  So I now I prefer point buy.  And then I ate some pie, the end.</blockquote>

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