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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5399416" data-attributes="member: 82106">I just don't really want to see endless characters with a 4 in one stat or another. The old AD&D days where you now and then saw a REALLY low stat was OK because it was pretty rare. If it were part of the normal point buy procedure in 4e then you'd almost surely be seeing 4's or whatever left and right. Not EVERYONE would take them, but it is easy to imagine a party with 5 characters each sporting an improbably low score of one sort or another.Which is why I think integrating those kind of stat changes into point buy won't work well, it will get overused. Giving a character some other slight reward OTOH at least satisfies their urge to get something in return for the cost they pay, small as it is. They can justify that to themselves, which encourages someone to now and then give it a try. The other thing with ultra-low scores I've always found is that making a character with that kind of disadvantage seems fun and all at first, but most players eventually get tired of playing the 4 INT guy that can't contribute the slightest to any intellectual exercise in any plausible way. I mean 4 INT, can you even talk? I'd say you won't be saying much! It also gets pretty implausible when you end up with things like 4 INT 18 WIS, what's that all about? You can sort of hypothesize your 'Forrest Gump' character, but it certainly doesn't correspond well to anyone that could exist in the real world, and is thus hard to RP in any sustained way.</blockquote>

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