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<blockquote data-quote="praetorian" data-source="post: 45993" data-attributes="member: 1385">I really don't like any of the official ways that much.&nbsp; Point buy sucks, period.&nbsp; It just begs for min/maxing (which I hate!).&nbsp; Arrange as taste is almost as bad, again just a bunch of min maxing.&nbsp; Of all the official ones, strait is perhalps the best, but even then it is not great.&nbsp; Its good in that it gets rid of min/maxing, but it also give the player zero imput and in many cases stats that just don't work for that class.&nbsp; Granted, if you have a good group, any of these work, since the players should be caring less about stats and more on personality.However, I have created a system I love much more than all the official ones, partialy because I made it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp; I have the players roll 3d6 strait, then add 1d4, 1d6, 2d4, ect. points as they want depending on the difficulty of the campaign.&nbsp; I like this system because it takes characters away from the status quo.&nbsp; Now your mage might be stronger than he is smart, or a fighter with brains ans wisdom, but not as much brute strength.&nbsp; However, it does allow players to customise a bit (so there is room unfortunately for min/maxing) and with random points added, all characters really are not created equal, unlike in point buy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="praetorian, post: 45993, member: 1385"] I really don't like any of the official ways that much. Point buy sucks, period. It just begs for min/maxing (which I hate!). Arrange as taste is almost as bad, again just a bunch of min maxing. Of all the official ones, strait is perhalps the best, but even then it is not great. Its good in that it gets rid of min/maxing, but it also give the player zero imput and in many cases stats that just don't work for that class. Granted, if you have a good group, any of these work, since the players should be caring less about stats and more on personality. However, I have created a system I love much more than all the official ones, partialy because I made it :) I have the players roll 3d6 strait, then add 1d4, 1d6, 2d4, ect. points as they want depending on the difficulty of the campaign. I like this system because it takes characters away from the status quo. Now your mage might be stronger than he is smart, or a fighter with brains ans wisdom, but not as much brute strength. However, it does allow players to customise a bit (so there is room unfortunately for min/maxing) and with random points added, all characters really are not created equal, unlike in point buy. [/QUOTE]

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