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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cor Azer" data-source="post: 3071226" data-attributes="member: 870">I prefer point buy myself - as a DM I like it because I often work on my NPCs during my lunch at work where it is conspicuous to be rolling a bunch of dice, and as a player I like because I can work on my characters when the DM isn't around, and tailor him to my vision or concept - while I have numerous concepts I want to eventually try, I don't want one picked randomly due to the fall of the dice, mostly because I want it to mesh with the other characters (again getting to the making the character before the game starts - each player tends to pipe up with what he/she wants to play and then we go off to make the PCs; there's enough conversation to coordinate options, but we don't all sit down together).I'm not a big fan of rolling because in my experience, no matter how smart the player is, no matter how good the character is in any other situation, I always and inevitably have one or more players complaining about a badly rolled attribute. For the entire campaign. Even if it never comes up to hurt the character. Worse though, in some ways, are the players who use it brag... (ie, "Come on, even I challenged the Black Knight, and I only have a strength 8!")As a DM though, I usually allow the players the choice - 4d6, drop lowest, and arrange, or point-buy. That said, my point-buy is pretty flexible (I believe I yoinked it from someone back on Eric Noah's old boards) where the PC is given a base 22 points or somesuch, but up to 10 extra points can be earned through a detailed background. Most of my players develop a background anyways, so opt for the point-buy to (I, and they, admit) power-game a little.</blockquote>

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