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Message: <blockquote data-quote="el-remmen" data-source="post: 3172381" data-attributes="member: 11">So yesterday, my group (yes, the people from <a href="http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=178024" target="_blank">this thread</a> and <a href="http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=178878" target="_blank">this thread</a> and five out of the nine people that played in the last Aquerra campaign, "Out of the Frying Pan" (see sig)) tried something new.We used a stat draft to determine the characters stats for our next Aquerra campaign (which is named "Second Son of a Second Son").  I had worked out the details of how a stat draft might work in <a href="http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=156917" target="_blank">this thread</a> slightly less than a year ago and ran a trial draft.For those of you who are new to this, this is how it works:So the seven of us (6 players + DM) met up at the house one of the players, sat around the table and I arrayed the numbers in rows secretly, hiding them behind a curtain until we were ready.I instituted the following rule:All group negotiation regarding wheeling and dealing about who should pick what should be done before the numbers were revealed.  During the draft, the person who was picking was allowed to pick one person each pick to talk to about choices, etc. . . This was done to keep people from yelling advice and stepping on people's toes and being judgmental about other people's choices, but still allowed for some cooperation, which everyone agreed they wanted.So they talked it over a bit, but perhaps not enough because there was still some sighs and rolling of eyes during the first draft (remember we did two), but what I found interesting was that since everyone said what kind of character they were looking to make and everyone agreed not to compete for the high numbers significant to those classes or class combinations (as we are starting at second level).So what was interesting was since high scores were "safe" up on the board, people's strategy changed into a kind of bottom-scraping that led to competition for the middle numbers.These were the players' class declarations:Gwar2d2: A <a href="http://aquerra.wikispaces.com/Militant+of+Anhur+Characters" target="_blank">Militant of Anhur</a> (a kind of warrior priest that can't turn undead, but channels energy to enter a "righteous fury")Ciaran: A straight fighterMofos21: A <a href="http://aquerra.wikispaces.com/Priest+of+Ra+Characters" target="_blank">priest of Ra</a> (the closest thing to a straight cleric there is in Aquerra)Rastfar: a fighter/diviner of the <a href="http://aquerra.wikispaces.com/Feats#academyalumnus" target="_blank">Academy of Wizardry</a>Ratchis: an <a href="http://aquerra.wikispaces.com/Aristocrat+Characters" target="_blank">aristocrat</a>/rogue (aristocrat is a PC class in my game based on AGoT noble class)Martin Olarin: a straight wizardAnyway, they rolled d30s for picking order and the numbers were revealed:[CODE]STR    DEX    CON    INT    WIS    CHA    Wld8    9    10    10    9    8    910    11    12    10    12    10    1012    13    14    12    14    12    1113    14    15    12    15    13    1215    15    16    15    15    15    1317    16    18    17    16    17    15[/CODE]Round OneMartin Olarin: Wild 13Ratchis: Wild 15Ciaran: Str 17Gwar2d2: Dex 15Rastfar: Int 15Mofos21: Con 12Round TwoMofos21: Str 15Martin Olarin: Wis 15Rastfar: Dex 14Gwar2d2: Wis 15Ratchis: Dex 16Ciaran: Wild 12Round ThreeCiaran: Con 18Rastfar:  Str 13Mofos21: Wis 16Martin Olarin: Int 17Gwar2d2: Con 14Ratchis: Wild 11Round FourRatchis: Cha 17Rastfar: Con 15Gwar2d2: Cha 13Mofos21: Cha 12Martin Olarin: Con 16Ciaran: Int 12Round FiveMofos21: Int 12Ciaran: Dex 13Rastfar:  Cha 15Gwar2d2: Int 10Martin Olarin: Dex 11Ratchis: Wis 12Round SixGwar2d2: Str 12Martin Olarin: Str 8Mofos21: Wild 10Ratchis: Str 10Ciaran: Wild 9Rastfar: Wis 14----------------------------------------So now they had their first sets of stats each.  The next step was to run through another whole draft before choosing which completed set they would be using for their starting character.I will come back in a bit to post the overview of the first chosen sets and then the results of the second draft.</blockquote>

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