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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8179111" data-attributes="member: 29398">Even if there's only fifteen of something in the world, when there's five of them in the same room then that thing is not rare in that place.  In the context of that room the thing is rather common, and people will become accustomed to seeing it.If a PC creature type or a class is intended to be rare and special, to me that means maybe one such PC might show up during an entire long-run multi-party campaign. I see the Paladin in 1e as working like this: it's gated behind a high enough stat requirement to make it fairly rare, assuming people are rolling honestly, but if you do manage to get one it can really rock.Sadly, when people are using point-buy or standard array then gating behind high stat requirements no longer really works.  The only other means of gating it I can think of is some sort of randomizer: for a rare class, say, a player could either freely choose between some basic classes or roll on a table that has the benefit of having a wider range of options including the rare ones but the drawback of having to play what you roll no matter what. (this latter method is what I already do for PC race in my game - you can choose from a range of basics or roll on a much-wider-ranging table, but if you choose to roll you're stuck with what you get)The whole rare-and-special element of something is rather lost if players can play it whenever they like and a single party can contain three or four of them at a time.My objective is to make playing a "rare" class or race an uncommon occurrence.</blockquote>

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