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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Murrdox" data-source="post: 670689" data-attributes="member: 10131">Personally, I really REALLY like the previous posted idea of taking 3d6 per attribute, and then distributing 9d6 for all attributes and rolling.  Do 3 sets of these, and ONLY three, take the one you want.For those REALLY unlucky bastards, if none of your three sets produce a cumulative bonus of at least +3 (or +2, or +4 or whatever the DM decides) then you can roll another 3 sets.I LOVE this idea very very much.  A Fighter could put 5d6 into his STR, and roll somewhat moderately, getting a 15, but then get really lucky on his CHA (with only 3d6) and get a 17.I'm sorry, but I just think point buy is stupid.  No fighter is every going to put any points into CHA, No wizard is ever going to put points into STR, no Cleric is ever going to put points into Dex, etc.  I also agree that PB shafts classes like the Monk who have multiple very important stats.You just end up with "cookie-cutter" classes.  When you roll randomly, of COURSE the fighter is going to put that 18 into STR, but he might break up his moderate scores in such a way to make a more interesting character than he'd get otherwise.PLUS, as DM it's also the DMs job to make the game fun, and none of my players would have fun with the PB system.  There's just something nice about rolling up your stats.  And none of my characters really complain that "his stats are better than mine!  Waahhh!!"  If you have players that whine about their stats, kill their character and tell them to go ahead and roll up a new one. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Again, I love this 9d6 distribution idea.  I'm going to take some dice and try it out a few times to see what kind of results I get from it.</blockquote>

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