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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Conaill" data-source="post: 921358" data-attributes="member: 1264">Exactly. That's precisely the point. With dice rolls, you might get all high stats. This method puts limits on how extreme a character you can come up with. I.e. it generates more balanced characters. Which is a GOOD thing!Mind you, it's misleading and, well, just plain incorrect to claim that this method "is guaranteed to give players the flat average of 11-12 for stats". First of all, I assume you mean a "flat average" of 12-13 (as for 4d6).Each individual stat will have almost the same distribution as using 4d6. It's only when looking at the combined stats that the differences become clear. When averaging across stats, the worst average you can get is 10.5 - the average of 3d6 (although even this set of stats has one 18, and a 29 point value!). The best average is 12.67, well above the 4d6 average. Point values range from a minimum of 24 (I think) to a max of 37.However, the sets of stats will be much better balanced, in the sense that you cannot have more than one 18 (at best you can have an 18 and a 16), nor can you get more than one stat below 5 (at worst, you can get two 5's, or a 3 and a 6).If you prefer higher stats than 4d6, you can always add an extra set of 1-6 cards to your deck, and deal stacks of 5 cards (similar to 5d6-drop-2lowest).</blockquote>