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<blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 9676886" data-attributes="member: 7030563"><p>Adctually I don't often read evidence of it on ENWorld. I read some people theorycrafting about it happening and a few like you saying they experienced it. But I don't often read any actual play reports (i.e. evidence) of it happening. Can you link some of these threads that appear over and over and talk about a character with high rolled stats who ruined the game?</p><p></p><p>It does not happen in the games I play in. That is not my opinion, that is factually my experience with over 40 years of playing D&D, and I backed it up with 3 example PCs from the actual game I started this thread about. That game is real, that game is ongoing and the "overwhelmingly strong" tendency you mentioned is not happening in that game, quite frankly the opposite is - a character with weaker stats is playing the "starring role".</p><p></p><p>I am not going to say it never happens, because people on here claim it has happened to them, so it obviously is there at times. But it does not happen in most of the games I play and I don't believe it happens in most or even a significant percentage of games overall. I also think that people that have experienced it and tables that are most worried about this typically play 5E using point buy, so when it comes to 5E I think it rarely happens even at the tables of people who have witnessed it being a problem and consider it a problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ECMO3, post: 9676886, member: 7030563"] Adctually I don't often read evidence of it on ENWorld. I read some people theorycrafting about it happening and a few like you saying they experienced it. But I don't often read any actual play reports (i.e. evidence) of it happening. Can you link some of these threads that appear over and over and talk about a character with high rolled stats who ruined the game? It does not happen in the games I play in. That is not my opinion, that is factually my experience with over 40 years of playing D&D, and I backed it up with 3 example PCs from the actual game I started this thread about. That game is real, that game is ongoing and the "overwhelmingly strong" tendency you mentioned is not happening in that game, quite frankly the opposite is - a character with weaker stats is playing the "starring role". I am not going to say it never happens, because people on here claim it has happened to them, so it obviously is there at times. But it does not happen in most of the games I play and I don't believe it happens in most or even a significant percentage of games overall. I also think that people that have experienced it and tables that are most worried about this typically play 5E using point buy, so when it comes to 5E I think it rarely happens even at the tables of people who have witnessed it being a problem and consider it a problem. [/QUOTE]
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