Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6519211" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Some folks would call that cheesey. Other folks would be fine with letting you discard the one without even ever playing it and immediately generate another. It's a social contract which you'd have to negotiate with your group (in old-school terms, &quot;with the DM&quot;). If you're going where I think you're going with this, and you try to leverage that into &quot;why can't I just skip over all 100 trillion rolls and pretend I rolled all 18s&quot;, I suspect your group is going to push back pretty hard, but if you just roll up a bunch of stats all under 10 I bet most AD&amp;D groups would be pretty chill about letting you re-roll, if you wanted.Still, even if you immediately kill/retire the guy right after creation, you'll still wind up with fighters being orders of magnitude more common than paladins due to the CH 17 stat requirement, even if you simply discard all 100 fighters without ever playing them. This is part of the value of stat requirements in the AD&amp;D design: it emphasizes that the paladin is rare and special, not part of the baseline. It sets expectations for the game world that if you ever find a whole organization of paladins, you should be extremely weirded out. (It also gives implicit guidance on the right way to play a paladin: a leader like Sir Lancelot or Roland, not just some Lawful Stupid dude who knows how to cast some spells.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 6519211, member: 6787650"] Some folks would call that cheesey. Other folks would be fine with letting you discard the one without even ever playing it and immediately generate another. It's a social contract which you'd have to negotiate with your group (in old-school terms, "with the DM"). If you're going where I think you're going with this, and you try to leverage that into "why can't I just skip over all 100 trillion rolls and pretend I rolled all 18s", I suspect your group is going to push back pretty hard, but if you just roll up a bunch of stats all under 10 I bet most AD&D groups would be pretty chill about letting you re-roll, if you wanted. Still, even if you immediately kill/retire the guy right after creation, you'll still wind up with fighters being orders of magnitude more common than paladins due to the CH 17 stat requirement, [I]even if[/I] you simply discard all 100 fighters without ever playing them. This is part of the value of stat requirements in the AD&D design: it emphasizes that the paladin is rare and special, not part of the baseline. It sets expectations for the game world that if you ever find a whole organization of paladins, you should be extremely weirded out. (It also gives implicit guidance on the right way to play a paladin: a leader like Sir Lancelot or Roland, not just some Lawful Stupid dude who knows how to cast some spells.) [/QUOTE]

Verification