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<blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 4800202" data-attributes="member: 3649"><p>There's a few good reasons for it. </p><p></p><p>1) It prevents cheating. A corollary to this is that you can be confident people can do the stat generation at home without worrying that they're just sitting there rolling and rolling until they get something they like.</p><p></p><p>2) You don't get someone having an 'unfair' advantage when he has really great dice luck and so can get all the cool feats with x-level stat requisites. This used to be much, much more pronounced in earlier D&D editions where you had to have stratospheric stats to do certain things. Everyone starts on a more level playing field.</p><p></p><p>As a corollary to 1 and 2, I'll be honest with you: the only people I've found who vehemetly <em>hate </em>point buy are cheaters and people for whom the best part of playing is being able to ourperform other PCs. I'm certain there are an equal or perhaps larger group that simply dislikes it for 'historical' or aesthetic reasons but I simply have not encountered any of them personally.</p><p></p><p>3) It prevents you from having to play a PC you dislike when you roll a 5 for Int and a 6 for Wis, etc. Of course you'll probably just let him die and roll up a new PC, but what's the point really when you can just go with point buy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WayneLigon, post: 4800202, member: 3649"] There's a few good reasons for it. 1) It prevents cheating. A corollary to this is that you can be confident people can do the stat generation at home without worrying that they're just sitting there rolling and rolling until they get something they like. 2) You don't get someone having an 'unfair' advantage when he has really great dice luck and so can get all the cool feats with x-level stat requisites. This used to be much, much more pronounced in earlier D&D editions where you had to have stratospheric stats to do certain things. Everyone starts on a more level playing field. As a corollary to 1 and 2, I'll be honest with you: the only people I've found who vehemetly [I]hate [/I]point buy are cheaters and people for whom the best part of playing is being able to ourperform other PCs. I'm certain there are an equal or perhaps larger group that simply dislikes it for 'historical' or aesthetic reasons but I simply have not encountered any of them personally. 3) It prevents you from having to play a PC you dislike when you roll a 5 for Int and a 6 for Wis, etc. Of course you'll probably just let him die and roll up a new PC, but what's the point really when you can just go with point buy. [/QUOTE]
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