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<blockquote data-quote="dreaded_beast" data-source="post: 1437885" data-attributes="member: 11185">A question with point-buy:Why wouldn't someone be allowed to get an 18 in their favored stat and put low scores in other stats?If I'm the fighter, I'm gonna fight, so I'm gonna put 18 in STR. Same thing for being a cleric. I'm gonna put an 18 in WIS, for spellcasting power.In my opinion, this is balanced out because the character in question is good in one area but suffers in others. The fighter can fight, but may not be the sharpest nail in the shed. The cleric can cast all those spells, but may be as clumsy as a rock.I feel that with point buy, if players are forced to create &quot;balanced&quot; characters in terms of stats, then everyone will soon have nearly the same type of character in terms of stats. If that was the case, then just assign all the players the same set of stats and let it go from there.The only reason I have a problem with this is because that is not the type of game I would want to play. However, there is nothing wrong with playing that way, and if you do, more power to you. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="dreaded_beast, post: 1437885, member: 11185"] A question with point-buy: Why wouldn't someone be allowed to get an 18 in their favored stat and put low scores in other stats? If I'm the fighter, I'm gonna fight, so I'm gonna put 18 in STR. Same thing for being a cleric. I'm gonna put an 18 in WIS, for spellcasting power. In my opinion, this is balanced out because the character in question is good in one area but suffers in others. The fighter can fight, but may not be the sharpest nail in the shed. The cleric can cast all those spells, but may be as clumsy as a rock. I feel that with point buy, if players are forced to create "balanced" characters in terms of stats, then everyone will soon have nearly the same type of character in terms of stats. If that was the case, then just assign all the players the same set of stats and let it go from there. The only reason I have a problem with this is because that is not the type of game I would want to play. However, there is nothing wrong with playing that way, and if you do, more power to you. ;) [/QUOTE]

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