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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 5676101" data-attributes="member: 32740">I know that and you know that.  Not everyone else does.  FAR too many people believe that point buy is the magic bullet that will stop people complaining about why someone else is having more fun that they are.  And the field is only level before you start buying.  After buying scores and choosing class, race and filling in other details it looks like the Andes met the Himalayas.And point buy doesn't necessarily solve that either.  As you say a spellcasting class can easily get by quite nicely without uber stats whereas MAD classes need every point they can beg, borrow or steal and point buy will only let them have so much.Players who find themselves in that situation need to immediately get the DM to set minimal standards for rerolls and maybe even additional accommodation of certain character types and concepts.  Players and DM's alike need to be fully aware of what a given method of stat generation will and won't do for them.  If they want to gamble they might LOSE, and one size does not fit all.But the DM doesn't always set the total points allowed to spend in the same place.  And as you set a higher total you still get discrepancy between MAD characters who are finally becoming able to function with some comfort and non-MAD characters who are able to push the envelope with those high totals.</blockquote>