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<blockquote data-quote="spinozajack" data-source="post: 6630024" data-attributes="member: 6794198">You should probably use point buy and averages for online games. I would certainly expect players to cheat. Sad, but true. How can you trust online dice rollers? I wonder how this works for online table top games. In-game you can analyze the rolls for fairness using the logs, but for a one time thing like stats I wouldn't allow anything but point buy and average HP.In a home game people who cheat are brought aside and told to knock it off. If it continues then comes the boot. Powergamers are not the same as cheaters. I'm a powergamer as a player (within reason, I avoid broken or OP builds but I do pick the best combos that I find interesting) and I never cheat. If anything, you don't need to be a powergamer if you are a cheater, because you can have an 8 strength and always hit anyway.If I was a cheater, and I used loaded dice, they would be loaded in favor of 15-16-17 instead of 18-19-20 values which would be too obvious. Nobody notices the fact that you always hit, in a game with bounded accuracy, since you rarely need more than a 15 to hit anyway in 5th edition.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="spinozajack, post: 6630024, member: 6794198"] You should probably use point buy and averages for online games. I would certainly expect players to cheat. Sad, but true. How can you trust online dice rollers? I wonder how this works for online table top games. In-game you can analyze the rolls for fairness using the logs, but for a one time thing like stats I wouldn't allow anything but point buy and average HP. In a home game people who cheat are brought aside and told to knock it off. If it continues then comes the boot. Powergamers are not the same as cheaters. I'm a powergamer as a player (within reason, I avoid broken or OP builds but I do pick the best combos that I find interesting) and I never cheat. If anything, you don't need to be a powergamer if you are a cheater, because you can have an 8 strength and always hit anyway. If I was a cheater, and I used loaded dice, they would be loaded in favor of 15-16-17 instead of 18-19-20 values which would be too obvious. Nobody notices the fact that you always hit, in a game with bounded accuracy, since you rarely need more than a 15 to hit anyway in 5th edition. [/QUOTE]

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