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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kaffis" data-source="post: 3757048" data-attributes="member: 10305">Not only should ability scores be randomized, but I believe that there's a lot of fun and interest to be had by limiting a player's choice (to some degree or another) in which rolled stat goes where.I dislike point buys because I find it tends to promote ruts. The player who always plays X will always distribute his stats as Y, with little variation. Case in point, I know a person who, if given a point buy, will never have lower than a 16 int. Ever. And doesn't play mages.On top of that, the standard rolled method (by which you roll and then arrange your stats as you please) still promotes some rut mentality -- "let's see, my dex is high, I'll use cha as my dump stat, and..."I recently started a game in which I had my characters roll their stats in order, and then I gave them the option to re-roll one or trade the positions of two of them. They ended up a) playing classes out of their norm in some cases, and b) considering character builds for a class they would have played anyways that they never would have considered otherwise. To my knowledge, once they got past a bit of initial grumbling, they're all enjoying their characters, and the somewhat odd stat distributions has created some really great character personalities in the process.</blockquote>