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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Number48" data-source="post: 5784292" data-attributes="member: 6688047">Your stats affect your character from creation to death, it is not equivalent to an encounter. It is much more equivalent to setting up the board for a boardgame. I wouldn't play a version of Monopoly where people started with different amounts of money, even though I might be the who started with the most.I've played all the variations. Even if you do random stats, if you allow people to assign the numbers to the stat they want, they are going to min-max as much as possible. If you don't allow them to move the stats, then the rolls are dictating what they can be. There are game systems that have completely random character generation for your stats, race and class but D&D has never been one of them.As an aside, I can recall in 1E/2E days of wanting to play a paladin some day. In 20 or so years, I never once got the stats to play one. A character class shouldn't be something you wait years to get. On the other hand, I can recall several times in 1E that I had stats bad enough that I couldn't qualify for even the race I wanted to play, much less class.Keep the point-buy and if the game mechanics are unfair or unfun with that, fix the game mechanics. Rolled stats will be unfair or unfun at least some of the time regardless of game mechanics.</blockquote>