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<blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 2887774" data-attributes="member: 29014"><p>Right, and by giving more point buy, Elite is just that--a change to the raw scores. The character is untapping their full potential. You may think that 'retroactively regenerating the character' seems illogical, but I think that taking point buy, which exists solely as a character creation balance method that exists before any additional modifiers, and attempting to apply that out of context, thus punishing stat raises and non-human races is actually more illogical (though I admit both are illogical, which we were probably guaranteed would occur when we decided to introduce an in-game racial variant that only affects a metagame decision--the character's point buy) </p><p></p><p>And once the approval is passed, some players might have this labeled on their characters from the get-go. For instance let's say a player said this:</p><p></p><p>My character currently is at Str 16, Dex 16, Con 16, Int 8, Wis 8, Cha 8. When there is a good roleplay moment to do so, based on what he encounters in the world around him, I am planning to take Elite and either bump Strength and Con both up by 2 with the 12 points if he continues to view the world as a place where only strength can flourish or to bump up the mental stats each by 4 if he can learn that sometimes violence isn't the answer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rystil Arden, post: 2887774, member: 29014"] Right, and by giving more point buy, Elite is just that--a change to the raw scores. The character is untapping their full potential. You may think that 'retroactively regenerating the character' seems illogical, but I think that taking point buy, which exists solely as a character creation balance method that exists before any additional modifiers, and attempting to apply that out of context, thus punishing stat raises and non-human races is actually more illogical (though I admit both are illogical, which we were probably guaranteed would occur when we decided to introduce an in-game racial variant that only affects a metagame decision--the character's point buy) And once the approval is passed, some players might have this labeled on their characters from the get-go. For instance let's say a player said this: My character currently is at Str 16, Dex 16, Con 16, Int 8, Wis 8, Cha 8. When there is a good roleplay moment to do so, based on what he encounters in the world around him, I am planning to take Elite and either bump Strength and Con both up by 2 with the 12 points if he continues to view the world as a place where only strength can flourish or to bump up the mental stats each by 4 if he can learn that sometimes violence isn't the answer. [/QUOTE]
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