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<blockquote data-quote="ThirdWizard" data-source="post: 2016642" data-attributes="member: 12037">I never said they were good reasons. <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=";)" /> The second one is useful only in certain cases. A wizard might really want a 18 Int for DCs and bonus spells, but make it a 17 and save 3 to put into Con to help survivability to level 4 when the 17 will become an 18. This is such a corner case, though, that it isn't all that useful. The only reason I can think to do this is for those characters who really want high DCs but don't want to spend too many points, so only casters. And then only some of the time, because many will want to stop at 16, and others will take the 18 so they can get a 20 stat at level 8. &nbsp;This has gotten me thinking, though. One of the main complaints with point buy is cookie cutter characters. What if the costs were variable...&nbsp;8-13: one for one14-15: two for one16-17: three for onethe second/fourth/etc time you got a stat it would be different2nd 14: one point2nd 16: two points2nd 18: three points&nbsp;This would encourage odd scores. In order to get the same power characters with this method would require higher point buys. I'm not sure how well it would work, but it might be interesting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ThirdWizard, post: 2016642, member: 12037"] I never said they were good reasons. ;) The second one is useful only in certain cases. A wizard might really want a 18 Int for DCs and bonus spells, but make it a 17 and save 3 to put into Con to help survivability to level 4 when the 17 will become an 18. This is such a corner case, though, that it isn't all that useful. The only reason I can think to do this is for those characters who really want high DCs but don't want to spend too many points, so only casters. And then only some of the time, because many will want to stop at 16, and others will take the 18 so they can get a 20 stat at level 8. This has gotten me thinking, though. One of the main complaints with point buy is cookie cutter characters. What if the costs were variable... 8-13: one for one 14-15: two for one 16-17: three for one the second/fourth/etc time you got a stat it would be different 2nd 14: one point 2nd 16: two points 2nd 18: three points This would encourage odd scores. In order to get the same power characters with this method would require higher point buys. I'm not sure how well it would work, but it might be interesting. [/QUOTE]

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