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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 7134599" data-attributes="member: 6787650">If I were going to run a campaign Wheel-of-Time style where the social contract was, &quot;These PCs are the protagonists of the story, and I the DM will make sure that whatever bad things may happen will not lead to your permanent death&quot;, as opposed to old-school &quot;Any PC can die at any time and you'd better have a backup&quot;, then I'd definitely go for &quot;assign whatever stats make sense to you, in consultation with your fellow players.&quot;I think the one thing I would do in that case, just to make the point, would be to carefully describe the PCs back to their players to make sure we're all on the same page. If you have Str 18, Con 18, Int 18, and Wis 16, I will want you to be cognizant of the fact that you're stronger than Arnold Schwarzenegger, as smart as Albert Einstein, as healthy as a gold medal Olympic athlete in their prime (Michael Phelps?), and as calmly rational and self-controlled as... a really wise person (can't think of a good example). You're either the result of a long-term selective breeding program, or someone who won the genetic lottery at billions-to-one odds. You will probably NEVER meet anyone as exceptional as you unless it is another PC. If that's who you want to play, then okay.I would want to make sure that all players have some kind of frame of reference for their stats that isn't just &quot;if I pick 18 then I get +4 instead of +3&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 7134599, member: 6787650"] If I were going to run a campaign Wheel-of-Time style where the social contract was, "These PCs are the protagonists of the story, and I the DM will make sure that whatever bad things may happen will not lead to your permanent death", as opposed to old-school "Any PC can die at any time and you'd better have a backup", then I'd definitely go for "assign whatever stats make sense to you, in consultation with your fellow players." I think the one thing I would do in that case, just to make the point, would be to carefully describe the PCs back to their players to make sure we're all on the same page. If you have Str 18, Con 18, Int 18, and Wis 16, I will want you to be cognizant of the fact that you're stronger than Arnold Schwarzenegger, as smart as Albert Einstein, as healthy as a gold medal Olympic athlete in their prime (Michael Phelps?), and as calmly rational and self-controlled as... a really wise person (can't think of a good example). You're either the result of a long-term selective breeding program, or someone who won the genetic lottery at billions-to-one odds. You will probably NEVER meet anyone as exceptional as you unless it is another PC. If that's who you want to play, then okay. I would want to make sure that all players have some kind of frame of reference for their stats that isn't just "if I pick 18 then I get +4 instead of +3". [/QUOTE]

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