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Message: <blockquote data-quote="redrover" data-source="post: 4356689" data-attributes="member: 70799">An Interesting House RuleAttributes are determined by their modifier total, as follows:The DM picks the number of modifier bonuses each player has (for example, +5).This is the sum of the attribute modifier bonuses for the six basic attributes (the PH suggests a range of +4 to +8 -- the key is for this number to be the same for every player).Players assign their own base attributes subject to the following rules--1. Exactly two attributes are odd, the rest are even.2. No more than two attributes can be assigned the same number.  3. The highest base attribute for a 1st-level character before racial adjustment is 18, the lowest is 6*.    A general recommendation is that two scores of 15 or higher plays best, but this is not a requirement.     In general, a modifier total of +4 to +6 tends to force players to take at least one modifier penalty to build their stronger attributes. A more “heroic” campaign might be pegged around +7-8.(* This is a bit of a nod to the 1st Ed. AD&D minimums. The DM is encouraged require a player to seek special permission for a minimum as low as 3. In local house-speak, this means the first player to request it gets it, and nobody else gets permission until the DM evaluates its impact on play.)</blockquote>