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<blockquote data-quote="maddman75" data-source="post: 2002429" data-attributes="member: 2673">I'm of the opinion that stats are far too important in 3e to be generated randomly.&nbsp; In AD&amp;D, it didn't matter nearly as much.&nbsp; Unless you had a 15+ or 7- there were usually no modifiers, and the modifiers weren't as large.&nbsp; Even the fabled 18/00 strength (which oddly in my misspent youth about 25% of the fighters seemed to have) was less than an 18 in 3e.&nbsp; I would be more comfortable having the starting level rolled at 1d4 or something than generate stats randomly.&nbsp; At least someone rolling poorly would eventually catch up.&nbsp; I have my own simplified point buy.&nbsp; The players just select ability scores so that the modifiers add up to a fixed amount, usually +8. No minimum either - if you want to cripple a character that's fine with me.&nbsp; Three even, three odd.&nbsp; The only downsides are that it doesn't weight higher scores - two 18s and the rest 10s and 11s is fine, and racial modifiers generally don't matter much, changing only the max and min.&nbsp; But it works and its easy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="maddman75, post: 2002429, member: 2673"] I'm of the opinion that stats are far too important in 3e to be generated randomly. In AD&D, it didn't matter nearly as much. Unless you had a 15+ or 7- there were usually no modifiers, and the modifiers weren't as large. Even the fabled 18/00 strength (which oddly in my misspent youth about 25% of the fighters seemed to have) was less than an 18 in 3e. I would be more comfortable having the starting level rolled at 1d4 or something than generate stats randomly. At least someone rolling poorly would eventually catch up. I have my own simplified point buy. The players just select ability scores so that the modifiers add up to a fixed amount, usually +8. No minimum either - if you want to cripple a character that's fine with me. Three even, three odd. The only downsides are that it doesn't weight higher scores - two 18s and the rest 10s and 11s is fine, and racial modifiers generally don't matter much, changing only the max and min. But it works and its easy. [/QUOTE]

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