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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ranger89" data-source="post: 3070093" data-attributes="member: 31083">I couldn't have said it better myself.I believe that players and DMs need to keep in mind that there is a wide range of reasons that people play D&D and a player's attitude towards ability stats, et al. is dependent on what kind of gamer the player is. The power-gamer type is going to obsess with his or her ability scores because they want to have the most powerful character they can build and most likely would like to have the strongest PC in the campaign. In that mindset, it makes perfect sense that the power-gamer would prefer point-buy. Conversely, the role player is not going to fret about random effects of rolling for their ability scores viewing low scores as flaws that make for better character development (e.g., a PC with a STR of 9 could be sickly). There's nothing wrong with either of those types of players or the various combinations of player types in between. It's all about personal preferences and enjoying the game in its many forms.Personally, I'm a 50-50 power-gamer/role player. I would never consider using a point-buy but when I roll my dice, you'd better believe I'm praying to every deity out there for high scores.  <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>