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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Petrosian" data-source="post: 679085" data-attributes="member: 1149">I prefer point buys of 32 (28 for a change of pace) and dislike random rolling systems.In my experience randon generation system tend to produce wide swings in character capabilities or they are just facades around "roll til you get high stats" designs. I recall a rollmaster game where one character, after propoting two 20's to 90 had 5 scores in the 20s and only two 90s (roll 10 d100, reroll anything below 20, promote two rolls to 90) while another character had two 100's and four 90's. My only quibble with the current point buy is the price difference between 14 and 18 is so severe it tends to really skew towards broader characters, which is fine for many character concepts but not for others. if it were adjusted to give points increases below 14 and slightly tone down the upper end so that for instance buying a 14 cost 8 points and buy a 14 up to an 18 were 12, then it would seem more in line with supporting both extremes of character types.Its just a quibble.</blockquote>