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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thunderfoot" data-source="post: 3760063" data-attributes="member: 34175">I know there are many that subscribe to the point buy method as great and balanced...hang balanced, if I can roll three 15s, a 16, a 17 and an 18, guess what...the stars aligned and my parents had good DNA;  you roll five 9s, blame your 'parents'(in game of course).  Life is a random crap shoot, not everyone can be good at everything, but there are the rare few that are both smart and strong, pretty and dexterous, wise and healthy.  Likewise there are some people that just lose at life that got zero breaks.   Just because your dice let you down, don't complain that you got a raw deal.  Its called luck and random probability, its part of the game, if you don't like it, play an MMORPG. (Sorry, that sounds more firm than I'd like, but I can't think of another way to say it.  If you can, please give suggestions and I'll edit - thanks)3.5 was all about balance; that was, frankly one element I didn't like about it, one of the things that made D&D great was that random element.  Point buy has its place (tourneys, living campaigns, etc), just not at my gaming table.  I'll get down off my soapbox now - I'm sure flames are incoming.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>