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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 3078787" data-attributes="member: 22779">LOL.But, RFisher, it's not really about whether or not lower stats are more satisfying.  That's a personal preference.  Besides which, point buy is usually considerably lower than die rolled anyway, due to the rather higher chances of ones "falling off the table" than sixes.  <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=":)" />However, while it is true you can play effective characters with lower points, it doesn't really change the fact that if your character is a 21 point PC and everyone else is 40 points, you're pretty much dead weight.  So long as the stats between characters are roughly equal, things work, although the DM might have to do some extra legwork beefing up encounters.The problem I see with die rolled PC's is that you have such a huge variance between PC's.  While some might not see that as a problem, I do.  From both sides actually.  I don't want to be that dead weight character dragging everyone down, and, if I'm lucky enough to roll high stats, why should preferential treatment be given to the guy with poor stats?  Why should I get shafted simply because the dice favoured me at chargen?Or, to put it another way, if someone believes that stats don't matter, then why should lower stat characters get first shot at magical treasure?</blockquote>

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