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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannager" data-source="post: 5783772" data-attributes="member: 73683">Not at all.Look, this is how I'm seeing what you're saying.You disagreed with my assertion that ability scores aren't the determinant of whether a character is interesting or not. Which means that you believe ability scores determine whether a character is interesting or not.You then went on to illustrate how having high ability scores allowed you to play a character that was more interesting than what that character would have been had you had lower ability scores.This says, to me, that characters with high ability scores tend to be more interesting than characters with low ability scores. At the same time, you've also told me that being interesting as a character is more difficult with low ability scores.Note that I'm not using the word "useful". I'm using the word "interesting". Certainly, a character with high ability scores is more useful than a character with low ability scores. But interesting? If a desirable goal of the game is to be able to portray interesting characters, then it strikes me that this is a good argument for a point-buy system, because a rolled-stats system can produce characters with mediocre stats which, according to you, are more difficult to make interesting.No obtuseness, just trying to understand how you're able to hold a couple of seemingly paradoxical beliefs about ability scores.</blockquote>