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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenjib" data-source="post: 134255" data-attributes="member: 530">Shaele,I agree with you regarding high variance.  The problem, however, with point buy is that you end up with characters that are all very similar.  You almost never get a fighter with high charisma or intelligence.  You will almost never get a wizard with high strength.  You will almost never get a rogue with high wisdom.  Given a certain point total you can probably predict what the vast majority of characters of a given class will look like, with perhaps a couple of notable variants as well. When you combine this with a class based game like D&D you get less diversity and realism among characters than I like to see.I created this method as an attempt to bridge the gap between the two generation methods.  There is some variance involved to prevent players from having cookie cutter characters.  At the same time, there is a point buy system added in to balance the characters relative to one another.Another thing to note is that when using straight 3d6 as per this hybrid method instead of 4d6 drop lowest, the chances of getting a set of uber stats are significantly reduced, so you have less of a chance of having to worry about the dominating character with stats that are too good.The combination of these effects is that you gets characters that are less likely to be overpowered than characters made with 4d6, less likely to be underpowered because you have a point buy baseline to boost characters that roll poorly, and at the same time retain some variance from character to character, preventing the point buy problem of cookie cutter characters.  You also retain the thrill of the gamble.  Some people like to have it all fall on the roll of the dice, however now it's tempered with a bit of an equalizing element.</blockquote>

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