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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shard O'Glase" data-source="post: 679485" data-attributes="member: 1134">PAX: Persoanlly I'd hate to play in a system like that where the costs for stats above average get really and prohibitivly expensive. I would feel railroaded into playing a character the DM wanted me to play(stat wise).  Sure there could be some degree of versatility, but the costs increase so much so fast you'd have to be a real hard ass for your character concept if you saw your character as a prodigy/savant in a certain stat and to actually take the stat to represent that.  IOW I would find the constraints irritating as get all out.  It's childish but in a non-scaling system I'd be much more likely to make a 12-14 character, in a system where I'm be rules mechainc forced into taking those stats, i'll bend over backwards to break it and get an 18 even if it criples me, and I'll probably end up not likeing my character.  I don't mind a DM coming up and discussing with the players and coming to an agreement on what types of stats we should have for the genre of the game, I hate a rule mechainc being enforced on me to do the same thing.edit: I always liked the idea for edges/flaws or whatver you want to call them.  And what you had was an interesting start.  Though since I didn't like your point mechainc, I'd have to use a different scale of points though.</blockquote>