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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 3071085" data-attributes="member: 3400">This is an important point. There's a question of balance with respect to ability scores (where the relative effect of the difference tends to decline over the life of the character when it involves important stats), and general balance between PCs getting a chance to shine with the same relative frequency... something more dependent on what the DM plans for and how the player uses the character than on the result of stat rolls.If you've got a PC in the party, even if he's got awesome stats, he still can't be the best at everything. If he starts to horn in on your territory, either suggest he spend his skill points/feats more wisely or carve out a more exclusive niche for yourself.If you are a DM and the characters have some notable variation, make sure you have stuff for the other characters to do and no "Mr. 14-is-his-lowest-stat". But then, that's a good thing to do even if all the characters are generated through point buy, one of the players is a community theater star, or most of the players are shrinking violets.By the way, in all the games I've run using dice for stats, large differences have very rarely been all that noticeable around the table except for some very specific cases (such as the half-ogre's strength) or when someone has specifically been bragging about what they can do.</blockquote>