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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6470405" data-attributes="member: 22424">I'm afraid there is no one &quot;right answer&quot;. Believe me, I spent years going backwards and forward on ability generation methods and never found one that sat quite right. Random methods seemed to alway give one PC much better or worse than the rest (or, most often, both), while point buy seemed to invariably give cookie cutter characters.Eventually, my epiphany came in the realisation that, really, it didn't matter all that much. As long as everyone was having fun, and as long as no PC was too dominant, then it all worked out okay. And so I started giving the choice.(And that one case, where one PC was too dominant, turned out to be as likely due to optimisation and system mastery as good rolls. So point buy didn't actually help with that. So even in that case, the solution was more likely to be a quiet word with that one player, rather than re-jigging the stat generation method again in pursuit of a holy grail that doesn't seem to exist.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 6470405, member: 22424"] I'm afraid there [i]is[/i] no one "right answer". Believe me, I spent years going backwards and forward on ability generation methods and [i]never[/i] found one that sat quite right. Random methods seemed to alway give one PC much better or worse than the rest (or, most often, both), while point buy seemed to invariably give cookie cutter characters. Eventually, my epiphany came in the realisation that, really, it didn't matter all that much. As long as everyone was having fun, and as long as no PC was [i]too[/i] dominant, then it all worked out okay. And so I started giving the choice. (And that one case, where one PC was too dominant, turned out to be as likely due to optimisation and system mastery as good rolls. So point buy didn't actually help with that. So even in that case, the solution was more likely to be a quiet word with that one player, rather than re-jigging the stat generation method [i]again[/i] in pursuit of a holy grail that doesn't seem to exist.) [/QUOTE]

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