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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RFisher" data-source="post: 3741057" data-attributes="member: 3608">This thread has inspired me to try something new. Once 4e is out--assuming it has a point buy system--I want to write a program that will then calculate all the possible score arrays for a given point value.(Assuming that players will be able to arrange scores to taste, so we don't have to worry about all the different possible arrangements of the same set of scores.)Then it will generate a table to randomly roll for one of those arrays.I'll get less of the variance of regular rolling, but some of the challenge/surprise of not buying the scores directly.Now if only I still have enough interest in doing this once 4e is out... (^_^)I have not yet, by the way, played D&D face-to-face with someone who wanted to use point-buy instead of rolling. I've never had any takers when I've suggested it. (Guess they're all cheating munchkins. (^_^))I guess it's the suprise, but I do like rolling. Heck, when making 3e characters I've been known to randomly determine race & class as well. In the end, I don't really mind having low scores as I've never found ability scores to be so big a factor that I couldn't still have an awful lot of fun.They might as well provide some point-buy guidelines since a good number of people are going to use such a system in any case. I don't really care what, if anything, they label as the default method.</blockquote>