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<blockquote data-quote="ThirdWizard" data-source="post: 2016983" data-attributes="member: 12037">The problem I ran into thinking about this is the more points the higher scores cost, the easier it becomes to get the lower scores because you have to add more points available to try and even it out. You run the risk of everyone stopping at, say, 14 on all the stats because it just becomes not worth it to raise anything higher.Yeah, I ran a few numbers, and if you change it what works for a 25 point buy doesn't work for a 32 point buy. The system I described with 27 points might theoretically be roughly equivalent to a 25 point buy, but you can't just make a 32 buy into a 34 buy.Point buy works very well for making balanced characters. Maybe not overly interesting characters' stats, but I can live with that. It would take far more thought and calculator work than I'm willing to put in to find a point buy alternative. I'll just stick to my ol' 28 point buy like I've been doing since 3E came out, I guess.I read all these interesting stat generation methods, and still keep to the point buy. Like the commercial says, I fear change. <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="ThirdWizard, post: 2016983, member: 12037"] The problem I ran into thinking about this is the more points the higher scores cost, the easier it becomes to get the lower scores because you have to add more points available to try and even it out. You run the risk of everyone stopping at, say, 14 on all the stats because it just becomes not worth it to raise anything higher. Yeah, I ran a few numbers, and if you change it what works for a 25 point buy doesn't work for a 32 point buy. The system I described with 27 points might theoretically be roughly equivalent to a 25 point buy, but you can't just make a 32 buy into a 34 buy. Point buy works very well for making balanced characters. Maybe not overly interesting characters' stats, but I can live with that. It would take far more thought and calculator work than I'm willing to put in to find a point buy alternative. I'll just stick to my ol' 28 point buy like I've been doing since 3E came out, I guess. I read all these interesting stat generation methods, and still keep to the point buy. Like the commercial says, I fear change. ;) [/QUOTE]

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