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<blockquote data-quote="TheCosmicKid" data-source="post: 7134032" data-attributes="member: 6683613">Why is that important? Sure, not every player gets bummed out if they roll all 3s, but some of them do. What do you gain from their dissatisfaction? Normalized random methods keep everybody happy, and do not suffer from the problems you've cited with point buy and the base array: they're different every time, and they can produce scores above 15 and below 8. There is of course some anticorrelation, but, especially if you produce the scores in order, it can still result in unexpected combinations like being both smart and strong.And frankly, I'd argue that anticorrelation in ability scores is a good thing. Sure, there may be some guys out who have have all 18s, but there are also some guys out there who are storm giants. The game does not expect you to be playing those guys. It expects you to be playing mortals with distinct strengths and weaknesses. If you do want to play a storm giant or an all-18s character, you can always arrange it with your DM. But that sort of thing should be a conscious decision, not up to the dice.Even if you don't buy that, at the very least anticorrelation is not such a bad thing that it's worth players being unhappy with their characters. Right?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheCosmicKid, post: 7134032, member: 6683613"] Why is that important? Sure, not every player gets bummed out if they roll all 3s, but some of them do. What do you gain from their dissatisfaction? Normalized random methods keep everybody happy, and do not suffer from the problems you've cited with point buy and the base array: they're different every time, and they can produce scores above 15 and below 8. There is of course some anticorrelation, but, especially if you produce the scores in order, it can still result in unexpected combinations like being both smart and strong. And frankly, I'd argue that anticorrelation in ability scores is a [I]good[/I] thing. Sure, there may be some guys out who have have all 18s, but there are also some guys out there who are storm giants. The game does not expect you to be playing those guys. It expects you to be playing mortals with distinct strengths and weaknesses. If you [I]do[/I] want to play a storm giant or an all-18s character, you can always arrange it with your DM. But that sort of thing should be a conscious decision, not up to the dice. Even if you don't buy that, at the very least anticorrelation is not such a bad thing that it's worth players being unhappy with their characters. Right? [/QUOTE]

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