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<blockquote data-quote="Stalker0" data-source="post: 8078668" data-attributes="member: 5889">I think its probably much higher. My take is that considering how many rolls it actually takes to get a to a true &quot;average&quot;, I think the reality is the ability scores don't have as much to do with character success as people might think.At the end of the day, the randomness of damage and d20 rolls account for a LOT of the experience at the table... and just as the system is robust enough to account for one character with &quot;hot dice&quot; from going off the deep end, its robust enough that a +2/-2 here or there doesn't break the bank in the overall scheme.Just to give a statistical demonstration. On average, it takes 72 rolls of a d20 before you will witness every value of the die comes up at least once (its like 71.95 if you want to get technical). That means there is some poor person out there that will roll their d20 72 times in a dnd game before ever seeing a 20 result. The game is quite random all things said, and its robust enough to handle those swings.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Stalker0, post: 8078668, member: 5889"] I think its probably much higher. My take is that considering how many rolls it actually takes to get a to a true "average", I think the reality is the ability scores don't have as much to do with character success as people might think. At the end of the day, the randomness of damage and d20 rolls account for a LOT of the experience at the table... and just as the system is robust enough to account for one character with "hot dice" from going off the deep end, its robust enough that a +2/-2 here or there doesn't break the bank in the overall scheme. Just to give a statistical demonstration. On average, it takes 72 rolls of a d20 before you will witness every value of the die comes up at least once (its like 71.95 if you want to get technical). That means there is some poor person out there that will roll their d20 72 times in a dnd game before ever seeing a 20 result. The game is quite random all things said, and its robust enough to handle those swings. [/QUOTE]

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