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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 5783751" data-attributes="member: 9037">Are you deliberately being obtuse? I said what made this character interesting to me was the ability that her multiple high stats gave her to successful play both a front line fighter and a charismatic face as well have some knowledge skills. Our party did not have a wizard, rogue or bard. The cleric was a half hobgoblin and he didn't want to play a charismatic type face.If I had tried to play her being all that with much lower stats it would have been very frustrating to accomplish it I would have had to multi class to be able to actually be good at those things in mechanical terms.I am talking about this one character not every character I have ever played. My favorite character of all time was my first 3.0 character a sorcerer who I rolled stats for and ended up with what would have been 19 point buy character.  I allow both point buy and rolling in my game and so far I have not had any issues doing so. Even if  5E doe snot support rolling and I want to play it it will be one of the first things I house rule in. I personally don't like point buy because I prefer a more organic feel to my world where not everyone is the same I feel that rolling stats accomplishes this more. With rolling you might see a wizard built like Conan all buff and strong and a fighter with a genius IQ you don't tend to see that as often with point buys. Because mechanically a fighter does not need to be a genius IQ to do what they are meant to do and wizard does not need to be strong so you rarely see players making those kinds of choices. Not everybody want this in a game, they want a more balanced kind of group and you know what that is fine and point buy lets you accomplish that. I am not going to say it is badwrongfun way to play. But it is not my preferred way to play.</blockquote>

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