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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 673236" data-attributes="member: 3146">It's funny all the posts talking about "cookie cutter" characters with point buy. I haven't seen it.Here's a sampling of characters:Human Ftr/Wiz 28 pointsStr 14, Dex 14, Con 14, Int 14, Wis 10, Cha 10Human Clr 28 pointsStr 14, Dex 10, Con 14, Int 10, Wis 15, Cha 12Human Clr 28 pointsStr 14, Dex 10, Con 10, Int 10, Wis 16, Cha 14Dwarf Ftr/Clr 28 pointsStr 16, Dex 14, Con 14, Int 10, Wis 14, Cha 6Dwarf Clr 28 pointsStr 14, Dex 10, Con 14, Int 8, Wis 16, Cha 12 Human MonkStr 14, Dex 14, Con 14, Int 8, Wis 16, Cha 8Half-orc Bbn/MonkStr 17, Dex 14, Con 14, Int 8, Wis 14, Cha 6Human Rgr/RogStr 14, Dex 12, Con 14, Int 10, Wis 14, Cha 12Human BrdStr 14, Dex 14, Con 12, Int 10, Wis 10, Cha 15Human PaladinStr 15, Dex 10, Con 14, Int 10, Wis 12, Cha 14Human PaladinStr 15, Dex 12, Con 8, Int 10, Wis 12, Cha 16Dwarf WizStr 12, Dex 12, Con 16 (18), Int 18, Wis 10, Cha 6Half Orc BbnStr 20, Dex 14, Con 14, Int 6, Wis 8, Cha 6Half Orc Bbn/ClrStr 16, Dex 14, Con 14, Int 10, Wis 15, Cha 6Human Ftr/ClrStr 14, Dex 14, Con 14, Int 10, Wis 14, Cha 10There's a fair amount of similarity in the stats. There's certainly a lot of 10s and 14s. However, out of the 15 or so characters, many of who fill quite similar roles, there's plenty of humans and no two sets of stats are identical. I didn't see any cookie cutter characters in the 30 point buy RttToEE campaign I played in either. The closest I've come to seeing nearly identical characters was the first time I played in a 32 point buy game (Living Arcanis).I showed up with a Val barbarian Str 16, Dex 14, Con 14, Int 12, Wis 12, Cha 10. Another guy showed up with a human barbarian Str 16, Dex 14, Con 14, Int 12, Wis 10, Cha 12. But the characters themselves weren't too similar. He was focussed on reach weapon combat and my character was designed to smash things up with a Tralian hammer (2d8 /x4 exotic weapon in that setting--yeah, I'll admit I'm a bit of a power gamer--but I also had these Mordheim minis with 2 handed hammers that I'd never used <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=":)" /> )If I had to build another front line fighter for that campaign, I probably wouldn't use the same set of stats either.</blockquote>

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