Level Up (A5E) Where to put ability bonuses during character creation

[Guest 6801328]

3-6, I think. Out of a population of some billion?

I was including character replacements after deaths. But you’re right...this is 5e so nobody dies.

 

[Maxperson]

How many PCs exist in any one game world? On average fewer than 10?

PC races/classes? Anywhere from one to thousands. Depends on the DM and his ideas of the game world. Actual PCs, one to dozens. I've known DMs to have 4 or 5 different groups of 4-7 people, and others to have single groups of 10+.

 

[Maxperson]

I was including character replacements after deaths. But you’re right...this is 5e so nobody dies.

I killed three in my last campaign. 1 died when 3 out of 4 failed the save vs. the Banshee scream. One died when he ignored the worm from a Spawn of Kyuss, and a third when he wandered off alone and hit an encounter designed to be hard for the entire group.

 

[Guest 6801328]

PC races/classes? Anywhere from one to thousands.

I have no idea what you mean by that.

Depends on the DM and his ideas of the game world. Actual PCs, one to dozens. I've known DMs to have 4 or 5 different groups of 4-7 people, and others to have single groups of 10+.

So in an extreme case dozens out of millions.

 

[Maxperson]

I agree with a background giving ASI to Strength if your background is body builder, or wrestler, for example. A knight is a more broad concept, you can be a strategist, a councilor, a student of war history, etc.

That's why I think that a background should give a choice of two stats. A knight might give strength or charisma. A strategist that has happened to be knighted might get Intelligence or wisdom. Backgrounds can be created, so it shouldn't be hard to get whatever you are looking for.

 

[Maxperson]

I have no idea what you mean by that.

A lot of DMs roll up NPCs, often a great many of them as if they were PCs. So the same rules as PCs get. There could be thousands of them running around a game world. Other DMs only have one group of 3-6 that use the PC generation rules.

 

[Guest 6801328]

A lot of DMs roll up NPCs, often a great many of them as if they were PCs. So the same rules as PCs get. There could be thousands of them running around a game world. Other DMs only have one group of 3-6 that use the PC generation rules.

Surely you don’t need it spelled out why what “some DMs do” is not relevant.

 

[Maxperson]

Surely you don’t need it spelled out why what “some DMs do” is not relevant.

Then nothing is relevant with regard to this question, since all of it is what "Some DMs do."

 

[Guest 6801328]

Then nothing is relevant with regard to this question, since all of it is what "Some DMs do."

No. If the DMs are following the instructions in the books it is relevant.

If they are making up their own way of doing things it’s not relevant.

 

[Maxperson]

No. If the DMs are following the instructions in the books it is relevant.

The instructions in the DMG for NPC creation cover anything from 3-6 being built using the PC rules(the players only) to tens of thousands of NPCs using the PC creation rules, or even more. It's all RAW.

If they are making up their own way of doing things it’s not relevant.

Following the DMG RAW is not "making up their own way of doing things."

Edit: If you want to discuss further, send me a PM. Let's not disrupt this thread.