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<blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 7133504" data-attributes="member: 15700">Sort of, but nothing official as a houserule.&nbsp; For example, if I tell any group of players (especially if I don't know them) to roll up PCs with 4d6, and if that generation isn't in front of everyone else, then I guarantee you that the stat sets from those PCs will be much higher than what is statistically possible.&nbsp; Largely because one of two things:If the stat sets aren't what the player likes, he or she will reroll them until they get a set they like (how many of us kept clicking on the &quot;reroll&quot; button when creating video game PCs lol)If a stat roll is really low, then the player will simply roll another set of dice.&nbsp; I.e. &quot;I rolled a 16, 15, 12, 12, 11, and 6.&nbsp; I'll just roll one more time to get rid of that 6.&quot;Statistically, the odds are good that if you roll 4d6, then you're going to have at least one low score.&nbsp; And yet, over 35 years of seeing PCs handed to me, it almost never happens.So the whole point of what I was saying is that if you do those aforementioned things, then of course 4d6 is going to look better, because you're stacking the odds in it's favor by fudging the rules as written.&nbsp; That's all.&nbsp; Personally, I don't care if people fudge their dice rolls if the table is OK with it, but don't compare it to array or point buy as being superior when you do so, that's all.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sacrosanct, post: 7133504, member: 15700"] Sort of, but nothing official as a houserule. For example, if I tell any group of players (especially if I don't know them) to roll up PCs with 4d6, and if that generation isn't in front of everyone else, then I [I]guarantee[/I] you that the stat sets from those PCs will be much higher than what is statistically possible. Largely because one of two things: If the stat sets aren't what the player likes, he or she will reroll them until they get a set they like (how many of us kept clicking on the "reroll" button when creating video game PCs lol) If a stat roll is really low, then the player will simply roll another set of dice. I.e. "I rolled a 16, 15, 12, 12, 11, and 6. I'll just roll one more time to get rid of that 6." Statistically, the odds are good that if you roll 4d6, then you're going to have at least one low score. And yet, over 35 years of seeing PCs handed to me, it almost never happens. So the whole point of what I was saying is that if you do those aforementioned things, then of course 4d6 is going to look better, because you're stacking the odds in it's favor by fudging the rules as written. That's all. Personally, I don't care if people fudge their dice rolls if the table is OK with it, but don't compare it to array or point buy as being superior when you do so, that's all. [/QUOTE]

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