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<blockquote data-quote="Gort" data-source="post: 5700889" data-attributes="member: 11239">I don't use point buy. I use standard array. So easy, quick, and balanced.I disagree with your assumption that rolling dice to determine your stats was EVER a valid means of generating characters. Heck, my group were house-ruling that out back in second ed!Generating ability scores with dice is atrocious. &quot;Oh-ho-ho! You rolled some bad numbers, now your character is screwed forever!&quot; just leads to people getting their low-stat characters killed so they can re-roll, or the countless &quot;Oh, you rolled a negative modifier so you get a free re-roll&quot; or &quot;If you don't like your stats you can re-roll&quot; and a thousand other ways to try and get around the basic and obvious fact that playing the character in the party who has terrible stats isn't much fun, and randomly generating your stats is a great way to have to play that character.In my opinion, rolling for stats should stay dead and buried along with stuff like rolling for hitpoints. Nothing quite like being the fighter with 42 HP because you kept rolling low each time you levelled up.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gort, post: 5700889, member: 11239"] I don't use point buy. I use standard array. So easy, quick, and balanced. I disagree with your assumption that rolling dice to determine your stats was EVER a valid means of generating characters. Heck, my group were house-ruling that out back in second ed! Generating ability scores with dice is atrocious. "Oh-ho-ho! You rolled some bad numbers, now your character is screwed forever!" just leads to people getting their low-stat characters killed so they can re-roll, or the countless "Oh, you rolled a negative modifier so you get a free re-roll" or "If you don't like your stats you can re-roll" and a thousand other ways to try and get around the basic and obvious fact that playing the character in the party who has terrible stats isn't much fun, and randomly generating your stats is a great way to have to play that character. In my opinion, rolling for stats should stay dead and buried along with stuff like rolling for hitpoints. Nothing quite like being the fighter with 42 HP because you kept rolling low each time you levelled up. [/QUOTE]

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