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Why I Am Starting to Prefer 4d6 Drop the Lowest Over the Default Array.
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<blockquote data-quote="RotGrub" data-source="post: 7145460" data-attributes="member: 6777078"><p>With rolling for stats, in a single moment your character's life is instantly and brutally reduced from such infinite potentials down to one concrete set of expectations and stereotypes, and any behavioral deviation from that will be severely punished—both intentionally through envy, and unintentionally through rolling. That DM(and the power structure behind him) plays a pivotal role in imposing those limits on helpless characters, without their consent, and without your informed consent as a player. This issue deserves serious consideration by every DM, because no matter what role your character ultimately adopts, stat rolling has effects that will last through their whole life.</p><p></p><p>Only a cruel DM would punish a player by making him keep what he rolls, or punish the group by forcing them to role play. That's psychological abuse. But for point buy nonconforming players, that's the everyday reality of their lives. We know point buy players are far more likely to be depressed, with a heartbreaking 41 percent rate of suicide attempts (via Mountain Dew hyponatremia), nearly nine times the D&D table average. That's not evidence of mental illness, it's evidence of trauma and distress causing by an oppressive social contract. They're not miserable because they rolled, they're miserable as the result of being assigned the wrong stats at character creation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RotGrub, post: 7145460, member: 6777078"] With rolling for stats, in a single moment your character's life is instantly and brutally reduced from such infinite potentials down to one concrete set of expectations and stereotypes, and any behavioral deviation from that will be severely punished—both intentionally through envy, and unintentionally through rolling. That DM(and the power structure behind him) plays a pivotal role in imposing those limits on helpless characters, without their consent, and without your informed consent as a player. This issue deserves serious consideration by every DM, because no matter what role your character ultimately adopts, stat rolling has effects that will last through their whole life. Only a cruel DM would punish a player by making him keep what he rolls, or punish the group by forcing them to role play. That's psychological abuse. But for point buy nonconforming players, that's the everyday reality of their lives. We know point buy players are far more likely to be depressed, with a heartbreaking 41 percent rate of suicide attempts (via Mountain Dew hyponatremia), nearly nine times the D&D table average. That's not evidence of mental illness, it's evidence of trauma and distress causing by an oppressive social contract. They're not miserable because they rolled, they're miserable as the result of being assigned the wrong stats at character creation. [/QUOTE]
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