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<blockquote data-quote="OB1" data-source="post: 7139121" data-attributes="member: 6796241">While I understand what you are getting at, and I certainly don't want to tell you how to play your game how you want, but I'm not sure this analogy works at all.&nbsp; On every professional sports team, the range of players ability to contribute even among starters varies wildly.&nbsp; Take a look at the NBA finals game last Friday, where the Warriors top Starter scored 35, and the 5th place starter scored 6 and the average was 16.8.&nbsp; The Caveliers top starter had 40, the bottom 5 and the average for starters was 22.8.&nbsp; Those differences don't come from training, they come from innate ability, and star players are just better than average players and way better than below average players in the NBA, but it still takes 5 players working together to win a game.When I play with a team of randomly rolled players, I expect that sometimes the Star player will help keep my character alive and reaching goals and other times I'll save her bacon.&nbsp; Alone, even the super star would be toast.I'm not saying that one style is &quot;better&quot; than the other.&nbsp; There are times when I like that feeling, as was described earlier in the thread, of a special forces team that has been bred for battle.&nbsp; Other times, I like the band of misfits who succeed despite not having all of the tools at their disposal that others do.&nbsp; &nbsp; Sometimes I like having the superstar character that has to worry about keeping the rest of the party alive, sometimes I like being the guy who needs a little help from his friends to get by.I do find it interesting that the initial decision to roll these stats came out of a time when the draft was used extensively to supply the army during wars (WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam) and the expectation was that not every soldier was going to be exceptional, and as that has changed over the last 4 decades to a volunteer, dedicated army that recruits the best (Gulf War, Afghanistan, Iraq), it has been reflected in the playstyle of RPGs.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="OB1, post: 7139121, member: 6796241"] While I understand what you are getting at, and I certainly don't want to tell you how to play your game how you want, but I'm not sure this analogy works at all. On every professional sports team, the range of players ability to contribute even among starters varies wildly. Take a look at the NBA finals game last Friday, where the Warriors top Starter scored 35, and the 5th place starter scored 6 and the average was 16.8. The Caveliers top starter had 40, the bottom 5 and the average for starters was 22.8. Those differences don't come from training, they come from innate ability, and star players are just better than average players and way better than below average players in the NBA, but it still takes 5 players working together to win a game. When I play with a team of randomly rolled players, I expect that sometimes the Star player will help keep my character alive and reaching goals and other times I'll save her bacon. Alone, even the super star would be toast. I'm not saying that one style is "better" than the other. There are times when I like that feeling, as was described earlier in the thread, of a special forces team that has been bred for battle. Other times, I like the band of misfits who succeed despite not having all of the tools at their disposal that others do. Sometimes I like having the superstar character that has to worry about keeping the rest of the party alive, sometimes I like being the guy who needs a little help from his friends to get by. I do find it interesting that the initial decision to roll these stats came out of a time when the draft was used extensively to supply the army during wars (WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam) and the expectation was that not every soldier was going to be exceptional, and as that has changed over the last 4 decades to a volunteer, dedicated army that recruits the best (Gulf War, Afghanistan, Iraq), it has been reflected in the playstyle of RPGs. [/QUOTE]

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