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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Satyrn" data-source="post: 7247128" data-attributes="member: 6801204">Boy, have we got a thread for that!But I just want to pipe in to say I gained my preference for Standard Array for a different reason. At the end of our 3e run, My co-DM was a little fed up with the high numbers that 3e's Roll and reroll rules gave the PCs so when we rebuilt the characters for 5e he had us use the Array to cut our numbers down a peg.I found it weirdly refreshing. And I liked that my half-orc's Strength dropped from his starting 20 down to 17. I had room to grow!And then I noticed something else. With the highest starting value (before race) being 15, it feels like the bar for "good at something" is proficiency +2. So now all my 12s and 13s feel decent. And my 16 is great, and I'm not inclined to bother with ASIs to pump anything up to 20.Using the array has made me less concerned about the numbers.And it helps achieve my co-DM's original goal. There seems no need to up the number of monsters or their deadliness to make the combats feel more threatening than they had before.</blockquote>