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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheWriterFantastic™" data-source="post: 6810931" data-attributes="member: 88534">Again, the quote you mention confirms 3d6 as the default method - the 1E DMG just strongly suggests the Methods I-IV as "alternatives" to ensure better score generation.The game acknowledged houserules practically from he beginning, but they weren't inherent in the system - I played with plenty groups that used each of the alternative systems as well, in addition to other variants, but addressed it as a houserule and left it at that.Though we keep beating this dead horse, we're digressing from the topic at hand: what 5E got wrong (or what it didn't). I can accept that we're going to continue to disagree on this, which is fine -- I have true appreciation for valid debate on most topics. IMHO, 5E, with its more evenly spread ability score modifiers and bounded accuracy has allowed for a more unified task resolution system, as an evolution of the d20 system. While 1E/2E may have seen less of a spread in apparent modifiers (direct combat adjustments being the most readily acknowledged), the scores' effects on multiple aspects of the game went much deeper (Strength was likely the least impacting, in this sense -- on the other hand, Intelligence determined maximum spell level and chance to learn spells, which could be incredibly limiting, and Wisdom determined both maximum spell level and bonus spells, both incredibly impacting).My initial response was primarily regarding ability score generation and opportunity provided by ability scores to effectively create a preferred character, either with or without multiclassing, and I think it holds. Both score requirements and the impact of scores on being effective in a chosen class and level limits in that class with multiclass characters were simply a matter of fact in 1E/2E, while in 5E, ability generation can be considered after every other aspect of character creation, given the inherent option to assign scores, whether by standard array or rolling 4d6 and dropping the lowest die.Ability scores are neither barrier nor crutch in 5E, which I believe, can be be attributed to one of the design philosophies of 5E - classes and races affording and defining effective archetypes, with ability scores being king in action resolution beyond that. Sure, the score modifiers can affect effectiveness of certain class features to a certain degree, but it doesn't restrict options -- a potential detractor in prior editions of the game.</blockquote>

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