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<blockquote data-quote="JiffyPopTart" data-source="post: 8458059" data-attributes="member: 4881">Anecdote:&nbsp; I was walking through character creation with a totally new to RPGs person a couple years ago.&nbsp; They didn't even play videogame RPGs previously.I went over how to assign the array to stats, and then determine the stat bonus.&nbsp; I went over how you very rarely use the stat itself&nbsp; but the bonus is used every time the stat was involved in a die roll.After we were finished creating the whole character and I gave them a character sheet to copy their worksheet I er to I stopped paying super close attention to what they were doing.After they were finished copying over I took a look at the sheet to make sure it was all filled out as needed to play and I noticed something that jumped out to me as super odd....In the attribute section the large circles had written in large print +3, +1, 0, etc..&nbsp; in the very small inset box was written a very tiny 16, 12, 10, etc.&nbsp;&nbsp; I pointed out to them that it was backwards from how we usually did it and they said &quot;That doesn't make sense to me.&nbsp; Why would I put the thing I never use in the big circle and the thing I always look at in the small box?&quot;&nbsp; I couldnt argue with the logic.&nbsp; Why indeed?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JiffyPopTart, post: 8458059, member: 4881"] Anecdote: I was walking through character creation with a totally new to RPGs person a couple years ago. They didn't even play videogame RPGs previously. I went over how to assign the array to stats, and then determine the stat bonus. I went over how you very rarely use the stat itself but the bonus is used every time the stat was involved in a die roll. After we were finished creating the whole character and I gave them a character sheet to copy their worksheet I er to I stopped paying super close attention to what they were doing. After they were finished copying over I took a look at the sheet to make sure it was all filled out as needed to play and I noticed something that jumped out to me as super odd.... In the attribute section the large circles had written in large print +3, +1, 0, etc.. in the very small inset box was written a very tiny 16, 12, 10, etc. I pointed out to them that it was backwards from how we usually did it and they said "That doesn't make sense to me. Why would I put the thing I never use in the big circle and the thing I always look at in the small box?" I couldnt argue with the logic. Why indeed? [/QUOTE]

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