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<blockquote data-quote="Obryn" data-source="post: 5146931" data-attributes="member: 11821">Look closer - there's no attack or saving throw tables, either!1e assumed that all the rules were more or less handled by the DM, including such things as whether or not a PC hit a monster.&nbsp; (The player still rolls, mind you - but the table was kept to the DM.)&nbsp; In this case, I don't doubt that Gary wanted the DM to have the final say on how stats were rolled up; keeping all the methods semi-private was a good way to control it.As for stat generation...&nbsp; I started using point buy in 3.5, and from what I read, this was very common.&nbsp; Heck; I thought it was the standard.&nbsp; I'd been burned by one too many overpowered characters who threw all encounter balance calculations out of whack. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Whether or not I like random rolls is dependent on what I'm playing.&nbsp; I like point buy for 3.5 and 4e.&nbsp; I like random rolls for 1e and RC.&nbsp; Specifically, for 1e, I love Len Lakofka's die rolling method - 4d6 7 times in order; drop one, swap two.-O</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Obryn, post: 5146931, member: 11821"] Look closer - there's no attack or saving throw tables, either! 1e assumed that all the rules were more or less handled by the DM, including such things as whether or not a PC hit a monster. (The player still rolls, mind you - but the table was kept to the DM.) In this case, I don't doubt that Gary wanted the DM to have the final say on how stats were rolled up; keeping all the methods semi-private was a good way to control it. As for stat generation... I started using point buy in 3.5, and from what I read, this was very common. Heck; I thought it was the standard. I'd been burned by one too many overpowered characters who threw all encounter balance calculations out of whack. :) Whether or not I like random rolls is dependent on what I'm playing. I like point buy for 3.5 and 4e. I like random rolls for 1e and RC. Specifically, for 1e, I love Len Lakofka's die rolling method - 4d6 7 times in order; drop one, swap two. -O [/QUOTE]

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