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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 8678642" data-attributes="member: 4937">We used it but in practice we gamed around at the meta level based on the realization that it so horribly gimped M-U's of low intelligence that there was never really a point of playing a M-U of less than about 17 intelligence.  That was the minimum intelligence where you be reasonably assured you could learn essential spells and would have max high enough that you'd be reasonable assured you could know enough spells.  Pretty much we got to a point where we had an informal flow chart on characters where if they didn't qualify as a Paladin, didn't have two 16+'s or one 18 that wasn't charisma, didn't qualify as a Cavalier, didn't qualify as a Ranger, and didn't qualify as an (eventual) Bard we knew that character wasn't going to make it or contribute enough to the party.  A cleric without 18 Wisdom was too unreliable.  A M-U without 18 intelligence wouldn't eventually become the demigod needed.  A fighter without 18+ strength would be half as powerful as one that had it.  A character that had two high prime requisites could multi or dual class well enough to be useful, but if you didn't have that you needed to qualify for a prestige class like ranger that was inherently powerful.  So if you didn't have those things, you either begged the DM to let you roll up a character worth playing or you made a thief and suicided at the early point and tried begging again if your next character wasn't worth playing.  In the long run this trended toward more and more generous methods of stat generation so that players would always have something they were happy playing.</blockquote>

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