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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 676107" data-attributes="member: 5834">refrom what I can tell, it seems most of you don't like to play a character like Sir Launcelot, Conan, Aragorn, and other such archetypes.Why are so many gamers into low-statted characters? I don't get it. These are a slightly above average person with one good trait. Why do you want to play that in a fantasy roleplaying game?That is what boggles me.Honestly, rate those to real people. Even a real athlete whose strength, dex, and con would be much higher than this.When I look at these stats I think: Townsfolk thrown into an adventure.What if you were playing say the following concept: Knight trained from birth to fight and uphold the family honor on the field of battle.Would you feel those stats would represent that well?My biggest problem with point buy is that they try to sell me the idea that 32 points is Heroic and then they don't make their own NPC's that way.Go add up Elminster or Drizzt base stats. They far exceed 32 points. The books I read have them as heroes of the land. I want to be a hero of the land to, not a hero sidekick.Even Gary Gygax's best characters weren't made on 32 points. 32 Points is not literary fantasy heroic. If they are going to require or include a point buy system, then maybe they should have a level of points where you can make heroic characters equivalent to the gameworlds heroic PC's. I would be willing to bet that even DM's who make their own worlds have iconic characters who have much higher stats then a PC generated on 32 points. IMO, that is the wrong way to treat the PC's.</blockquote>

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